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Taking Inventory
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero We didn’t start out with a farm. In fact, when we first bought our land there wasn’t even a garden on site. Lake Township’s zoning classifies our property residential. There is no separate zoning classification for agriculture. In a historically rural…
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Springing Ahead
Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. – John Muir Did you know that you’re more likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or automobile accident on the first Monday following the spring time change? It’s true! Apparently we have a hard time adapting to that artificially influenced change in our schedule. It severely…
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Bloom Where You Are Planted
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville We often open these posts with an update on the weather. It’s sort of a thing. Maybe that’s because Ohio cannot seem to figure out which season it wants to be in at the moment (even more so…
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Protecting Our Investment (and a Snowy Day)
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow. Benjamin Franklin Seasonal weather for NE Ohio returned this week with an unexpected snow storm on Sunday morning. While we only received 2- to 3-inches of snowfall during the event, the initial rate at which it came down surprised a lot of NE Ohioans. Winter storm…
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The Unlikely Farmdog
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog. Charles M. Schulz This afternoon we came home to a bonus chicken. You read that right. Where we should have 17 chickens, our usual 14 hens and 3 roosters,…
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Winter Weeding? (and More from the Homestead)
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov This week I found myself doing a task I normally wouldn’t expect for the second week of January, 2023. Weeding the garden. That’s right. I spent an hour or so this week on my hands and knees pulling weeds from our garden…
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Looking Back on Our Future
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. Seneca Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it is 2023. When we were younger time seemed to move so much slower. We waited for time to pass, wanting for things in our future to come to us quicker. But as we’ve aged it seems…
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Serving Up Gratitude
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy. They are the charming gardners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust Happy Thanksgiving, friends. Christine and I will celebrate Thanksgiving today with a hike. It’s a tradition we’ve carried on over the last several years. And while we will sit down to…
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Make Time for Work and to Play
Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. -Friedrich Nietzsche Of all the seasons, I love fall the most. Christine will tell you she favors the coming of spring, but for me fall is where it’s at. Sure, spring and summer both have their places in my heart, but there’s…
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For the Love of Goats
Working in the presence of goats is infuriating. – Todd Clark So back in June we did a thing. We packed up two goats into the back of Christine’s SUV and brought them to the homestead. It wasn’t a spur of the moment decision. We tossed the idea of goats around for a while and…