Starting a new lifestyle can be daunting any time of the year but jumping into it just as the harsh winter months approach is the kind of challenge that creates champs! We had to find ways to make life in a 400 square ft. tiny loft-style home on a secluded mountain less taxing on our […]
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Tony Wants to Farm
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Long before we made the decision to build up our “farm life” in West Virginia (starting with the necessary “farm house”), Tony spent a season in 2011 at his mom’s place – dubbed Free Earth Farm though it’s not a working farm – to experiment with growing vegetables on a large scale and raising animals […]
Enter Here
Friday, October 18, 2013
On my oh-too-short visits to distract, ahem, help Tony on the house construction in W.V., we like to plan “project” oriented tasks to maximize my efforts. If we stick to one small goal, we can usually reach it in the 2 weeks I’m there to lend the extra hand(s). On this particular visit in September, […]
A Very Good Place to Start
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Before I forge ahead with our West Virginia home story, I’ll take a few steps back and show the beginning stages of “building” – which look more like stages of destruction but, hey, creation from chaos. There were originally three houses on the land Tony shares with his brother and when they first bought the […]
All Aboard
Monday, October 29, 2012
Every vacation needs a catchphrase or signature hand choreography for photo ops and hell ya moments. While sitting on the train on the first leg of our 4 city Amtrak excursion we decided on the perhaps unoriginal yet stylistically simple pumping of one fist forward and proclaiming “Holiday.” Our plan was to travel from West […]
About a Dog
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Hidden among the urban farm footage I found this short video gem (well, I like it) of Tony in close up telling a cute story about our pup Delaware. It’d be great if our dog had his own video series about his Dela-wacky experiences then he could finally afford a raw diet.
Our First Born
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Our goats Geraldine and Josephine freshened within two days of each other. Geraldine was first; giving birth to a buckling followed by Josephine with a doeling. The baby girl arrived and left the same day – to a farm in Colorado Springs to comfort a doe who had lost her baby (altruistic from the start). […]
Some Like it Chaud!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Geraldine and Josephine have arrived on the Free Earth Farm urban edition scene. It took a bit of coaxing (and a higher wire fence) to get them to remain in their new living quarters – see previous post for the making of that structure – but now they seem right at home. Tony found this […]
Garlic Breadth
Monday, July 18, 2011
Whilst visiting the farm life in West Virginia, I helped beau farmer harvest over 1000 bulbs of garlic. Â The first small batch (per one seasoned garlic raiser’s recommendation)Â we readied by washing, cutting off the stem and root hairs, and drying on racks in the sun. Â The rest we nestled in the barn, suspended by their […]
Sampson
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Sampson passed away in February. Today was his birthday. He is greatly missed. R.I.P. dear old friend. May 28, 1998 – February 8, 2011 Music by The Liars & Peter Bjorn & John