This year, our son’s 14th birthday happened to fall on Election Day and, similar to everyone, we improvised celebration in more »
Train Wreck to Chain Wreck
Fall Musings
The entomology talk of the town has been the identification of the first nest in the U.S. of venomous Asian more »
Food for Thought
Marion Nestle, an amazing professor, advocate and guru of food sovereignty, has written several in-depth books about food policy and more »
To Harvest Squash with Love
Today, we harvested 350 totes of winter squash—roughly 25,000 pounds. Tomorrow, we hope to do the same before the annual more »
Peace Compost
There is no doubting how much we miss hearing all the kids and school groups that we have paused due more »
Shorter Days Are Coming
We want to send a big thanks out to David Burger and the entire staff at Stewardship Partners for spearheading more »
Dignified Every Day
This week, we have been waking up wanting to spray paint our 117-year-old barn with huge RBG letters, or etch more »
Beans and Beets
On our farm, here in the Carnation valley, the kingdom Plantae is filled with many subfamilies. We have Chenopodioideae, which more »
Hope – An Essential Value
Hope during this time is essential. It’s a deeply valuable part of who we are, not only as farmers trying more »
Synchronicity
When you look up the origin of this word, it comes from two Greek words: sun, meaning together, and khronos, more »