Letter from the Farm Last Saturday, we sent 52 doelings (born last spring) on a journey to the Dominican Republic. This trip has been...

Farm News We had our first snow this week; just a dusting, but enough to reinforce the finality of the season. The shortened days, the...

Farm News The veterinarians were here this week for our annual pregnancy checks via ultrasound. The event is usually punctuated by...

Farm News The routines of cheese making can be tedious. The daily set up of vats, the transfer of milk, the culturing, the ladling, the...

Farm News Our world is presently small, and the pathways of our daily routines are well-worn. Yet, we still manage to find joy close to...

Farm News The 2020 season has dealt us challenges we could never have imagined. The pandemic has turned all of our worlds upside down and...

Farm News Every fall, like the squirrels hoarding their acorns, we start freezing our chevre so we can extend our selling season well...

Farm News I am obsessed with making mixed milk dairy products. The rich, fatty & buttery jersey milk combined with the clean, white and...

Farm News The sun is shining, and the opportunistic flies are buzzing about, taking advantage of the pockets of warm air inside the...

Farm News There’s a finiteness to a goat’s lactation. Our girls have been putting it out twice a day since early March and based on the...

Farm News There has been an abruptness to the onset of color in the tree leaves this year. The greens faded to 70’s era golden yellow and...

Farm News The combines have been rolling over the wide-open fields, gobbling up dangling soybean pods and leaving behind a fine stubble...

Full moon over fecundity, market offerings and farm happenings Farm News The bucks’ raisôn d’ètre has finally arrived, coinciding with...

Farm News We live less than 50 miles from the Illinois Amish community in Arthur. Over the years, we have collaborated with members of...

Farm News This week we lost our beloved Liberty, our senior citizen goat. She was the longest-lived goat on the farm. At the astonishing...

Farm News The heat and the drought finally gave way to some much needed rain this past week. While our fiery red sunsets bear witness to...

Farm News As we approach the “Labor Day” holiday weekend, I’ve been thinking hard about labor and our collective sense of work in the...

Farm News There’s an upside to our inevitable late-summer declines in milk production: I can slow my pace and take time to observe. I can...

Farm News The endless sun-drenched days and the shag carpet of green blanketing the landscape seduce. The perfection of red ripe tomatoes...

Farm News The purple martins have been prolific this year. From our vantage points on the ground, it looks like they fledged at least...