Spring in Kentucky means unpredictable weather. We may have 70 degrees today and 30 degrees tomorrow. It may be full storms with rain, thunder, and lightning, tornado warnings, or even a few snow flurries. This is normal and just part of the fun of changing seasons in April. We have lived through so many weather…

I’m really comfortable with canning, dehydrating, and storing food from our garden. But I’ve never really experimented much with fermentation. I did make the best sauerkraut ever last fall with a head of fresh farmers’ market cabbage. And honestly, that gave me the confidence to try something else new – fermented cranberry pineapple honey. This…

If you come to our house on a Saturday morning, chances are we’ll have homemade biscuits and jelly with bacon, eggs, and a hot cup of coffee. Or maybe we’ll have a blackberry muffin or blueberry waffles with hickory syrup. And now that my new bowls from Wayfair have arrived, our weekend breakfast has gone…

When we bought the farm a few years ago, not only did we get some cool old barns with rusty treasures, but we also ended up with lots of dump piles filled with broken bottles, plastic jugs, and tires. Lots of tires. So this weekend, with clear skies and mild temperatures, we decided it was…

You all know we love foraging and finding things right here on the farm that we can eat—and turn into something tasty. So when my husband started seeing people make syrup from hickory trees, it was a total no-brainer. We grabbed our coats, picked up the garden basket, and headed out to the woods. Finding…

Yes, that’s a bathtub—and yes, we’re pulling it across the farm. This post includes affiliate links. I have a friend with an old vintage bathtub tucked into her flower beds, complete with a solar fountain and I’ve loved it ever since I saw it. So when we moved to the farm last year and were…