Farm Blog

Jenn's packing peanut artwork. That's pretty much what my hair looks like, most days.

"A false sense of security is the only kind there is." Local bard David Whyte said this, and it knocked a dent in my if I'm good...

Through the work of many hands, hearts, hooves, and rootlets, this farm is looking pretty good. We have tall rows of raspberries, we...

Some of my horse-drawn equipment was manufactured more recently than my cell phone. But still, Hawthorn Farm embraces the latest...

Lend me your ears! My dad, who has provided valuable editorial advice my whole life, noticed that I wrote in my last post about the...

Some of my favorite color schemes appear this month. Chief among them: ripening blueberries. We ate an enormous blueberry crisp last...

I was reluctant to do it, but I hitched the ponies up to the moldboard plow again to rip through the tough pasture grass. Here's what it...

I get to play Michelangelo every 90 days, when Murphy needs a haircut. The Renaissance sculptor removed extraneous marble to reveal the...

It's an old idea in psychology. Humans contain impulses towards death, and impulses towards life. The world's pretty much made out of...

Well, another week of not wanting to trade my problems for anyone else's. Here's the rundown of calamities I faced. I finally catch the...