As always, my family and I celebrated Thanksgiving this year. We did so with many of the usual traditions, my beloved wife’s from scratch homemade pumpkin pies, the slow cooked Turkey, the friends and extended family that came, the laughs, the odd food experiments and for me, the pondering of the words thanks and gratitude. Shortly into my first deployment, in 2006, I first began to really ponder these words…
As the weather continues to turn, I have not been able to work as much outside as I normally would like to. But when I do, I try and make the exercise worth it. This last week I went to help our friend Mark at Hope Grows Farm to build a winter animal shelter in his pasture. He is bringing on a few ponies to winter with his donkey Gus,…
This last week defiantly didn’t go as planned. We were suppose to get some livestock moved, some more ground prepped and our Operation Market Gardener (OMG) Primer first draft finished. Instead livestock shipping got cancelled for lack of equipment, my beloved and I couldn’t agree on the placement of our next bed and I identified some significant flaws in the OMG model layout. I did get the compost pile mixed…
I learned to love the cool but not cold days of autumn while serving in the military, especially in the morning. You see, growing up in Montana there were three seasons: Winter, Wet (due to the snow melting), and Dry following quickly by winter again. As a child I would watch Charlie Brown’s Halloween and Thanksgiving specials and wonder why the leaves were not buried under a few feet of…
The weather of winter is closing in upon us, with rains for most of the week and the prospect of the frost coming this week. You see, unlike the winters in Montana where the land can already be covered in snow, where it will remain for most of the winter. Ohio rains and freezes, off and on for most of the season, making the land muddy and roads slick with…
