Being Prepared After the Cow Calves
Being prepared after the cow calves is super important on a farm. I love farm life – the simplicity of it – the self-sufficiency of it…
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A Calf is Born!
A calf is born! Hilde finally calved and has a beautiful, light brown calf! What you are about to read and see is the actual process of delivering…
Backyard Bees
With all the excitement and work surrounding grape harvest, I forgot to tell you about the new additions to our homestead – Honey Bees! Our backyard bees…
Making Wine at Home from Montepulciano Grapes
Making wine at home from montepulciano grapes is an exciting end to our vineyard harvest season and a fun end to our summer. Grape harvest…
How to Tell if Your Cow is About to Calve
How to tell if your cow is about to calve is a question many with family milk cows ask. Hilde, our Jersey Brown Swiss cross…
Oak from Tennessee
The oak from Tennessee has arrived! It sure is a lot of wood but we have a lot of plans for it! As many of…
The Last Harvest of 2014 – Montepulciano
Yesterday was quite a day – 30 tons of Montepulciano grapes later and all the grapes of 2014 are harvested! So the last harvest of…
Back Filling ICF Basement Walls
Our ICF (insulated concrete form) basement is finally beginning to look like a basement! There is now dirt against two sides rather than just dirt…
Aglianico Grape Harvest
Wednesday, October 7th, marked the first Aglianico grape harvest of 2014. We finished harvesting the Roussanne grapes about a month ago, before the rain began….
3 Steps to Beautiful Stucco – DIY!
I love the look of stucco! Here are 3 steps to beautiful Stucco – DIY! For a chronological listing of our ICF building see ICF Building…