Lessons from the Farm

For the last several years I have spent my early spring planning out my beautiful garden. You know like the ones on Pinterest with the all the plants in neat containers and overflowing with bounty. With this image in mind, I toil through the spring getting the soil ready and planting my seeds. Each year I get a little closer to my image. The first year, within months my walkways were covered with weeds taller than my planting beds. I didn’t realize my dream included weeding.

I didn’t grow up with any pets. My dad always said, “We’ll get a dog when we have a barn.” I guess I showed him, because now I have a barn and I’m on my third dog. I also have a horse, chickens and cats. In all honesty, I never imagined this would be my life. Life just put me here. I’m enjoying almost every minute of it. There are some days when it just seems like a little too much. Like this week. What started as a simple water test, turned into the complete collapse of o

Chickens have a pecking order...literally. They establish a hierarchy by pecking at each other on the head.

Sometimes chickens realize they can fly. Will you spread your wings and fly or remain a chicken?