Spring Starts in February

Potato Planting Day

Last week, after cutting and curing the potatoes for just a few days, it was time to put them in the ground. We had spent the last couple of weeks marking and digging the rows which made planting day go a bit more smoothly. Stewart spent the morning taking turns with the children moving up…

Gravity-Fed Running Water: Preparing the Foundation

When I was eight months pregnant with Annabelle and Stewart had to do more of the water hauling for dishes, filtering, and laundry; he put a solar-powered pump into the old cabin. It was a sort of stopgap between having to haul water for everything in those months surrounding a birth and our plan to…

Sounds Like a Plan to Me

He calls me Ma and asks if it’s okay if he and his brother live on the land adjacent to us when they grow up. “How about this?” he says with wide eyes and upturned hands. “How about I grow apple trees and we have pigs and we bring you apples and lard from the…

From the Land: the little moments of progress

Two things we’ve learned since we moved off-grid are that everything happens at a slower pace and sometimes the smallest completion of a task can mean more than you realize. Take, for instance, the day we moved our bed from the camper to the cabin. My husband built a bed frame into the cabin and…

Of Kale and Turnips and Cabbages and Garlic

Yesterday something beautiful happened. For weeks I have struggled with the reality of a baby who naps early, a toddler who naps late, and an Annabelle that only sometimes naps but mostly just keeps her baby sister awake. By the end of the day Ruthie is falling apart, Joshie is in need of an early…

Late June Postcards

Y’all, there are pears on our pear tree. They are small and five in number but they are real live pears. And we ended up butchering one of the wild hogs when he decided to make a run for it. So we only have this lady left but she seems to be living happily alongside…

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Melissa says:

March 6, 2023 at 10:50 PM

Love that you have returned to this space!

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