Graduation part✌️ You can't get any more domesticated than this...being adopted by some humans on day 1 of life, relying on them for basic needs and beyond (beyond being games of tag and even hide and seek with the kids 🤸). An abundance of alfalfa
I love to see this diversity of tail feathers at the self feeder 🥰. It's nearly graduation season...a time when many take a rite of passage and cross a new threshold. Once chicks, our poults are on the cusp of their passage to hendom. The layer
🌎 Happy day to Mother Earth from which hope springs 🌱. May we aspire to be more like these sheep who subsist entirely off of what the earth gives...forage and water and who return a wealth of nutrients to the ground in exchange. It's practically
By these hands 👐 It's spring, when our hands are called upon for such a myriad of tasks which we have built into our life here. The first shiitake fruiting of the year is happening...lamb tails and spring mushrooms abound. Yesterday in between fi
A very bright star was born to us six years ago today. Marion Rose 🌹, burn on bright and let your own light guide you through life. You of anyone in this world know it's all what you make it...and you, special you, were born with the gift of a cr
After running a concerned citizens investigation here for the past two weeks we find ourselves in a position to see where the chips fall. General Motors finished their cutting, taking about 2/3 of the protected woodlands and wetland which buffered
🙏A lot of you have asked how you can help, and now's the time! After a difficult string of phone calls trying to get to the bottom of how @generalmotors was able to clear protected wetlands and endangered Indiana bat habitat here in Brookville, Ohi
Let's plant trees 🌲🌳 In two weeks we have a shipment of hundreds of trees being delivered for a project we planned last fall. Our intention all along was to establish rows of trees bordering and buffering the edge of our farm, continuing the proc
🦇 A month ago we found an incredible creature in our barn, a small brown bat with a furry abdomen. We marvelled at this animal: master of pest control and capable of catching ten mosquitos per minute. Responsible for contributing to pollination an
The sun crossed the celestial equator just minutes ago ☀️. We are about to grab more daylight hours than our southern hemisphere compatriots. The plants and animals, all flora and fauna on our half of the globe will rejoice...including us🙏. Happy
🎆Toads are in...Mother Nature's latest delivery of spring delight surfaced in the compost pile as I filled wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow to top dress the herb garden yesterday. I wonder if he was tunneled in the depths of our compost pile to wait
☔ This is more characteristic of early March: frigid, unrelenting rains. These conditions are a major reason why we don't jump the gun on getting into the field. It seems this heartland soil needs a good spring marination every year before it's re
Integration Day🤟 The babes are already feathering out...legit feathers growing in, replacing that so-soft baby fluff that no stuffed animal can quite match (Is that why Jack just needs to get his hands on them as soon as breakfast is over?). Well
Against the odds✨ 🤲 If I don't learn something from these animals, I'm missing the forest for the trees. This tiny tiny nugget is named Rosie. She was born to a yearling, first-time mother ewe earlier this week during a rainy overnight...not the