Farm Life Farmstand Spring has sprung at Farm Life Farm. Our Farmstand is open! Sarah built our stand and has outfitted it with eggs and soaps to start. So exciting to see it. Dogs and Sheep are shaved. Again, all Sarah. The yard has been swept and raked and the tons of winter manure in all pens has been hauled to the muck pile. The muck pile fencing has been moved so we have more room for the compost. We will be attaching the backhoe soon. Harper and Phoebe can get up there and mix...

As I sit in the SImsbury Ambulance Training room suffering through our Annual training, I thought how long its been since I wrote an update. It has been a challenging winter. We have had more snow and cold this year. Farming is hard. Farming in the cold is harder. Morning chores normally takes 20 minutes. With the added difficulty of the weather, it is taking almost an hour right now. Water has been the biggest challenge. Our hydrant froze a couple of weeks ago. We wrapped it with...

We live in a ranch and Sarah and my bedroom is in the basement. The "garage' section is open to the rest of the basement and currently serves as our project room and workshop. Given how many projects we have going, it is common to not clean up one before beginning the other. With this situation, the walkways constantly get narrower. There comes a point where I feel so anxious and claustrophobic causing a compulsion to clean. We hit that point a few days ago. For the...