Monthly Archives: November 2016

We started this season–our first as parents–with some pretty modest goals: keep our baby clothed and fed and make enough money to do it all again next year.  I’m happy to report we succeeded on both counts (click here for a picture of Frankie “eating” our sweet potatoes).  And in […]

Another Season, Another Cause for Thanks

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I know this space isn’t the most natural forum for discussing presidential politics, but Landon and I can’t seem to think about much else. Our bodies ache today not with the pains of farm work, but with the anxiety and tension of what this country will look like moving forward. […]

An Election Response

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  Landon is spending this unseasonable fall day spreading fresh mushroom compost onto our now-empty vegetable beds.  This is a new practice for us, one that was facilitated by last year’s purchase of a tractor with a bucket (see photo).  The mushroom compost is a byproduct of Pennsylvania’s robust mushroom […]

Building Better Soil

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