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 […]
Demolition Discoveries
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
I’ve taken a two week vacation to help Tony begin renovations on our house in West Virginia. We originally wanted to start from scratch (using reclaimed building materials from the house already on the land) when it started to make more sense to keep the frame of the house we were dissecting for materials and […]
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 […]
Point Pleasant
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Last night we watched the film many a documentary watching acquaintance has asked if Tony has seen when they hear he’s from West Virginia – The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Â With all its hillbilly twisted nonsense, I can see why some are wary of backcountry culture and don’t accept Tony’s many invitations […]
To Market
Sunday, September 4, 2011
My latest visit to Free Earth Farm was in the thick of harvest time. I’d leave the garden with a fistful of basil and a skirt heavy with heirloom tomatoes every few days. (Insalata caprese, anyone?) Not to mention the pole beans! Those suckers grow relentless. In Your Face! No large projects like the garlic […]
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 […]
Underground Railroad Kickball League
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Deya (Team Doppelgänger super star and sister to beau farmer T) has pinned the badge of “Kickball Commish of the Appalachians” on her striped thigh-high stockings and orgainzed a weekly pick up league to serve the young at play of Summers County, West Virginia. The “kickball field” is near the old “basketball court” of an […]