Category Archives: Daily Life
Wintering Herbs with a Grow Light
This past week was my birthday. Usually a Thanksgiving birthday sucks but this year, for some reason, people remembered and I got some pretty cool and useful gifts. One of this awesome gifts was from my oldest brother. He sent … Continue reading
Four Years of Farm Life
Last week marked four years since I uprooted my life and left the city to move to the country. Moving here has been an intense learning experience. I’ve had to learn everything from how to buy firewood, start a fire and keep … Continue reading
The Pecans are Peeking
I love having a backyard bounty. I have five pecan trees, three of which are producing and showing signs of getting ready to drop their nuts. My fruit and nut trees have had a hard time between pests and the … Continue reading
Unexpected Visitors & a Panty Predicament
It’s the end of October and it’s been way too warm here, in the mid 80’s daily and yet every morning it’s chilly enough to wear sweatpants during morning feeding only to finish my chores breaking a sweat. Last week … Continue reading
Unlikely Friends – An Interspecies Bromance
One of the most interesting things on a farm is observing the relationships between animals, especially between different species. I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing several interspecies relationships develop – some sweet and some amusing. Gemma Jane has a thing for mothering adolescent chicks … Continue reading
Reminders From My Younger Self
I’ve seen many posts on social media with words of advice people would give their younger selves and I love to read them but what about when your younger self has great reminders as well? This past weekend I was … Continue reading
Gratitude Expressed
This lifestyle is a complete sensory experience. From hearing the wind blow through the leaves for miles away or through the chimes or feeling it brush across my face while playing with my hair. Touching impossibly soft feathers or seeing babies being born or … Continue reading
Farm Animal Parenting Styles
Willow, the first chicken I hatched became a mom today. Unfortunately, she has fowl pox and is unable to see from one eye. She panicked when the babies hatched and killed one and pecked one hard so I had to take her … Continue reading
New Fencing
Next month is my 4 year anniversary of leaving Tampa to start my farm life and I’ve just completed the first phase of farm fencing! You know you’ve done something “rurally cool” when farmers show up to check out your … Continue reading
The Turkeys Have Chicken Pox, err, Fowl Pox
Rupert and the boys have been avoiding me lately. I thought it was because of their molts but since they’ve been molting for a couple months and this is a recent behavior it clued me in that something was wrong. I … Continue reading
