After a weekend spent outside raising garden beds and planting seeds (as well as a billion other things!) it feels odd to return to our everyday life. The season seems to be shifting quickly from spring to summer and I’m ready for our rhythm to change once more, though I haven’t quite decided what that will look like yet! I certainly feel it’s time for us to move to a different beat as the sunshine draws us outside and the…
With all the sun and rain we’ve had this last week or two, the grass is growing tall and thick and green. The trees are unfurling into their summer bloom and everywhere around us looks rick and verdant. It’s around this time that a person might start thinking about cutting some of that grass back. Meet our lawn mower, Wander. She’s efficient, eco friendly and extremely keen; you might say that she really loves her work. The main cow pasture…
It’s gardening season here on the farm, with tomato plants abounding and green things on our minds. We are in the process of building a series of raised beds so that we can really get stuck into our veggie production and we’ve been planting fruit trees and bushes around our garden too; it’s gardenpalooza. So it makes sense that it should also become part of our school work, after all the big advantage of homeschooling is that we can choose…
Despite the incredibly slow start to spring that we’ve had this year (it’s May people!) gardening season is very much upon us. This year our garden is very much our preoccupation, we’ve been talking about it all winter long and now the season is finally here we are keen to get going. During our winter deliberations we laid out the priorities for the farm and for our family for the growing season. We have an ever increasing number of animals…