Author Archives: Kelli Miller

is a little boy’s playground Rafe spends hours scooping up and hauling around spilled chicken feed.

My dad was nice enough to bring his tractor and soil saver over on Sunday to widen the garden for next year. This past summer I discovered the joys of growing drying beans. I grew soldier beans, which are white … Continue reading →

For some reason, fields of cornstalk bales as far as the eye can see are just eerie to me. Maybe it’s because they’re made in the fall, when everything is stark and gray and damp. They are the last product … Continue reading →

As promised on Friday, I’m posting pictures from our trip to a local farm to buy pumpkins. First a ride out to the field, in a wagon pulled by a couple of Howard & Mable’s draft horses. Then back to … Continue reading →

A couple of weekends ago we took the kids to Howard and Mable’s, a local farm with a giant pumpkin patch. They drive you out to the field in a wagon pulled by a couple of their beautiful Belgian draft … Continue reading →

A firefighter, a nerd, and a pirate this year. Scary, aren’t they?

My mom’s a Halloween baby. This was a few years back when she dressed up with Madeline & Olivia for trick-or-treating. (Man, how tiny and cute were they just 5 or 6 years ago?! And how happy am I that … Continue reading →

A couple of news items from The Organic Consumers Association. These just make me so so angry. INDUSTRY SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS RAMMED THROUGH CONGRESSDespite receiving over 350,000 letters and phone calls from OCA members and the organic community, … Continue reading →

And in our case it’s not who we know in high places, but who we know in the not-so-high places. A friend of Matt’s from high school left his career as a highly-paid software engineer and moved back here. Now … Continue reading →

You can see this same tree in summer here.