The passing of these cold days is made easier by moments of color. These are the ones that have swept me up in their coming. The go...

Edmund and Garth both shot deer this season. They hung in our hops barn as long as the weather permitted before being skinned and butchered....

The new year stretches ahead of us.  This is the path worn through the snow by our cows. They use it to retreat from the wind once th...

The other morning I was out moving the cows to a fresh break of grass and marveled at their ability and willingness to eat huge quantities o...

While the competing views of nature as either bleak waste, red in tooth and claw, or a Disneyland inhabited by anthropomorphic herbivores st...

Where do we store 955 pounds of squash? Almost anywhere.  - Alanna

Garth and I gave and received utilitarian gifts this year. I was fueled by the irritation of using things not suited to the purpose, and I c...