This week was the start of the market season for 2010 and also, for me. The verdict? I had a blast! While the Willow Street Growers Market ...

View of the hive after opening the bottom vent board. Please note the ginormous cluster of bees. (Oh, and also the cork that is still in the...

I have been in a planting frenzy this week and I'm not done yet. Most of the new garden plot has been planted with cut flowers, tomatoe...

Is it just me, or do others feel a bit giddy when the sun comes out the morning after several days of rain?

I spent Friday and Saturday in a most enjoyable way - in the company of a new but good friend while we sold heirloom herb and vegetable seed...

So I bit the bullet and rented a riding rototiller. They delivered it early this morning and by eight a.m., I was out there tearing up sod w...

Mayapple and her lambs lamb races Rosebud's little boy Aster's little girl chickens the goose family

This morning I found Apricot's baby dead in the barn. Last night she was nursing and getting around nicely, Apricot was taking good care...

Yesterday Rosebud gave birth to twin babydoll lambs, a white ram lamb and a black ewe lamb. And today, Apricot (Aster's bff) had a black...

It rained all day today and so I spent it in the greenhouse in a desperate attempt to get caught up on seeding. Part of the reason I'm s...

Midway through prepping this new garden plot, I gave serious consideration to the possibility that I may have lost my mind. This space is 4...

Especially on a farm (no matter how small). lambs... Mayapple and her twin boys chicks... a mix of blue silkie peeps seedlings... in lat...

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Gandhi

shipped yesterday, arriving tomorrow Funny how much I'm looking forward to their fuzzy little selves.

I had a great time at the Pennsylvania Herb Festival! But there are two things - first, although I took my camera along, I also completely a...

a table of seedlings in the early morning haze of the greenhouse Today is the first event that Tulip Tree Hill farm will be attending as a ...

The bumbles have arrived! Inside this cardboard box is a sealed plastic insert that contains the bees. Upon arrival, all I had to do was l...

If interested, you can download plans for building your own top bar beehive at the Barefoot Beekeeper web site or go directly to their dow...

"The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams." Henry David Thoreau the new hive This week, in between potting up seedl...