We have a family change jar. Anytime we find some change, we put it in our jar. Every once in a while, the kids will dump it out and...

We read a lot of Little House on the Prairie books over here. In fact, it happens to be my 11 year old's favorite book. There is endless...

Monday is water day in our household. All things pertaining to water happen over here on our farm today. What makes this especially...

While the majority of our society is getting ready to start another school year, we decided to kick off our 'un'school year with some...

There is a creek that runs through our property. It is where my kids are now, playing in the mud, building forts and splashing in the...

This is raspberry season on the farm. The time of year when even the children get excited for garden 'work.' Most of the time, summer...

Last week, I wrote a post on missing chicken eggs. This week, I am writing on the found eggs. Except they are not really eggs anymore,...

This time of year, we are usually drowning in chicken eggs. The ladies are overly happy with the lush grasses, the marsh that is filled...

This girl here was born to live on a farm. It is in her heart and in her soul. She is something special and our farm animals know it,...

I have three cows in heat....all at the same time. Our farm is...well...a bit louder than usual. They all stand at the edge of our...

This time of year, it is slim pickings in the root cellar. Long gone are the winter squashes of acorn, spaghetti and butternut. Any...

After a two day trip to Minneapolis, we came home to find some of our chickens had a party while we were gone. Let me rephrase that. Our...

My house used to be spotless, especially if I invited you over. I would spend the two hours before you came over for lunch, cleaning it....

I have a friend who knits these beautiful creations. She will spend hours...no days...knitting sweaters and shawls and then slowly...

When I was in highschool, I played basketball. I played some in college, too. My grandfather played for the Boston Celtics back in the...

My mom likes to remind me ever so often, that when I was a child, we would drive through these small towns with lots of farms and...

My upbringing was not extrodinarily different than yours. In fact, if I ventured to guess, there would be so many similarities that would...