• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

    Carl Jung

End of Winter

We were watching a lot of Game of Thrones over Christmas and the line that always sticks in my head when thinking of that movie is “Winter is coming…”  Ominous. Looming. Forewarning. It seemed appropriate to have gone through the entire series and landed in the most stressful January we’ve had since.. well, I don’t … Continue reading

Catching up 5 of 5.. end of Fall

We had a HUGE last crop of tomatoes ….and the fog started to set in for fall.  Rainy days for 2 weeks straight.  

Catching up 4 of 5

We went to 3 different places to collect apples and made Gallons and Gallons of cider.  All three were located in Sebastopol.  Gravensteins and Golden Delicious.  Safe to say we will have hard cider in January. The summer vegetables are coming to a halt.  Scrounging and combining kinds that we don’t normally put together.  A … Continue reading

Catching up 3 of 5

My mom came to visit and saw the farm for the first time.  She loved the baby chicks and spent lots of time socializing them. We splurged on oysters, lamb, and lobster… and then we started noticing that we could tell the sex of our French Black Copper Marans chicks.  Hard to believe those 15 … Continue reading