"Farming is a challenging business - but what isn’t today?? We ALL have good days and bad, stresses and triumphs; changes and challenges. However, several recent conversations with other livestock farmers in our area leave us concerned for the future of livestock farming in the northeast. Throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s many thousands of small ( Read more... )

Over the years I've tried to take steps to be more 'green', less wasteful, more conscious of chemicals and how I consume things. Having a kid and being responsible for all of the 'stuff' she is exposed to makes it yet more important ( Read more... )

Brian and I have belonged to a meat CSA http://www.chestnutfarms.org/ for a few years now. We love being a part of Kim and Rich's extended farm family and look forward to their monthly e-mail updates. From time to time I have shared them here, this one I think is most intersting because ( Read more... )

Going to San Francisco was a breath of fresh air. If I wasn't so tied to this are (the people and the seasons) I could live there in a heartbeat. Brian and I have been commenting on small things since we've been back, that are so anti-California ( Read more... )

I am not a gadget geek, but I'm married to one ( Read more... )

These were extremely popular amongst girls when I was growing up, but somehow I never managed to read them. Just like I never read Anne of Green Gables or The Secret Garden. What's wrong with me? I was really an avid reader. But I digress ( Read more... )

Yesterday was one of those days where the best laid plans fall apart. Despite that, it was a wonderful evening chatting with Brian in the cool night air (in a hoodie) on the front porch with the cats ( Read more... )

I went out kayaking with Margaret on the Charles last night, for the first time ever. It was amazingly perfect weather and I'm surprised my arms and shoulders aren't sore this morning (though, I did kind of soak myself in the boat - it's going to take some time to learn control with rowing ( Read more... )

Aptly timed, a Hannaford beef recall http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/19891723/detail.htmlRead more... )

A neat organization http://www.cogdesign.org/index.html is having a plant sale in Waltham this weekend. I'll drop by there to grab the things I've been looking for (herbs, tomatoes and some flowers). I need to get myself some dirt too!