I love lavender. The delicate scent and stunning color calms me. There’s a reason lavender essential oil is used in aromatherapy! I saw it growing…

What doesn’t taste good with bacon in it? Bacon continues to capture the imagination of chefs and home cooks from around the world. Rather than limiting it…

I love the playful images that bumbleberry brings to mind. They sound like a berry that Alice in Wonderland would have picked! However, they…

Christie and her children Mallory and Connor came for their annual summer visit. It seems like just yesterday that they were babes…

As promised, after two years of work, here are the before and after shots of the patio area of our farmhouse. All…

Inviting friends to the farm to spend the day with us is always my opportunity to play around with new recipes. Sometimes it…

Watching the stress fade from my daughters’ smiles fills me up. For three years, I’ve struggled with how to mother my adult children. Their…

Meggie and Theo left today at 4 am. Today at 3 pm, Kaitie arrived with two of her work colleagues, Bee and Andrew.…

I loved the reaction I got this week when I told the kids that I had made them homemade marshmallows. “Really –…

Theo asked Meggie to marry him last night. Meg and I had spent the morning preparing all sorts of cold salads to serve…