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If you need ham for your Easter dinner this weekend, we have half a dozen for sale here at the farm! Real hams, not pressed processed ham product. So tasty! Ham with roasted cabbage – yum! Have you seen Jamie … Continue reading →

A new craft project… Garden drying out… Green… (Chives are always eager to get started in spring) Flocks of red-winged blackbirds in the trees outside my office window What’s making you happy this week? 1 year ago: Spring cleaning Interested … Continue reading →

Eight things about Rafe Henry, age 8 1. This has been said before, but still… you love football. To the point of obesession. Other sports are fun, too, but really they’re just a way to pass the time until it’s … Continue reading →

Last Friday was a scheduled day off from school for the kids. I asked Rafe what he’d like to do and he was ready with an answer…cross country skiing! birch trees on blue sky Sounded good to me! It was … Continue reading →

Picked up the first eggs of the year today, and are they a sight for sore eyes! The sun is shining… there’s a nice slow melt going… and the hens are laying again. Spring is coming!

The shopping cart is open at the Iowa Food Coop!. You can find our products here. The shopping cart will close Saturday, March 13th (I think at 11:00 p.m.) with delivery on Thursday, March 18th. These pigs here are our … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year again. I lose my garage for the next 3 months, first to Madeline’s fair pigs, then to chicks, and then to chicks again. The garage is attached to the house, and I can tell you … Continue reading →

Me (answering the phone): Hello? Matt: Can you see me? Me: No, I’m in the basement. Where are you? Matt: Grab the camera and step out the back door. I’m on top of the windmill. Can you see him up … Continue reading →

The snow is piling up… up, up, up to the eaves. And the icicles are growing down, down, down. For 7-year-old boys, this is heaven. The other upside is that all of that snow insulates the ground, and our underground … Continue reading →

I don’t usually get that into Valentine’s Day decorating. Not because I’m morally opposed to it or anything. It has more to do with my lack of organization. Which explains why normally I’m taking down snowman decorations somewhere around May … Continue reading →