4 Truths About Your First Year of Farming
February 18, 2014No matter how prepared you are, your first year on the farm will be like nothing you expected—this beginning farmer knows!
How Our Farm Uses Homeopathy
February 17, 2014I want to continue our homeopathy discussion last week by showing you how Mom uses the remedies on our farm.
The Art of Miscommunication
February 4, 2014Miscommunication. We’ve all experienced it in nearly every aspect of our lives.
Humiliating Encounter with the Traffic-stopping Snake
January 27, 2014It has been brought to my attention by my young farmhands that while I have posted many of their antics and shenanigans, I have not divulged nearly enough of my own “learning curves.”
From ‘Selfie’ to ‘Healthie’ in 2014
January 24, 2014As a magazine staffer, it’s part of my job to keep afloat of new media trends ,and one most inescapable social media trends in 2013 was the “selfie,” which was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year.
Bake Your Own Bread Bowls
January 22, 2014When we moved to our Wisconsin farmstead, Inn Serendipity, nearly 20 years ago, we quickly embraced home cooking, partly because we didn’t have another option
Merry Christmas from Our Farmhouse
December 20, 2013It’s the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse, when all of sudden came a clicking clatter, as I pulled out the laptop and typed up this letter.
Can This Goat Pass as a Reindeer?
December 2, 2013Do I look like one of Santa’s reindeer? I think I do! Maybe not Rudolf, though, because my nose is the wrong color.
Farm Fantasy Meets Homesteading Reality
November 11, 2013Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Reality and I homestead a small piece of property a few hundred miles south of Fantasy Land.