I know it was a month ago already (WHAT?!?!) but I’ve been busy. So please forgive the lateness of this post…oh, and thee are still two more parts to the christening weekend to come. Maybe I will get those done before June is over… As the parent of a young child, you often get to […]

I mentioned briefly that we had all our water tanks set up now. When we added a 1000 liter IBC tank to our courtyard, it replaced a 120 liter rain barrel. So we moved the small rain barrel over by the guest house where another rain barrel was already sitting. Then bought a little plastic […]

I was just out in the garden and picked 1.658 kilos of strawberries. That’s over 3.5 pounds of strawberries! And the good news is, there’s going to be a whole lot more over the next couple of weeks. What are we going to do with all these berries? Well, I’m planning to make pound cake […]

A few weeks ago, we bought 3 huge IBC tanks to hold rain water for the farm. One of those containers was destined for our orchard and I guess my dad got tired of seeing it sitting in the courtyard because he offered to help Stefan move it down there. We just bought a little […]

This past Sunday, we started the attack on the ivy once again. It covers the back of both sides of the barn, and unfortunately has worked it’s well under the gutters and up onto the roof. We’re talking about hiring someone to get up on the roof and take the stuff down, but at least […]