Well maybe not actual farming, but we are prepping to bring down more creepy crawlies to the homestead this weekend. ore creepy crawlies...

Today is the day! Peter met a fellow beekeeper in the Northern Virginia area, and through sharing our story of our homestead and new...

The Gerards wanted a little social media time this morning when I was feeding them, so they wiggled to the top of the bin and had a...

Worm shed progress! Roof is on ahead of the coming snow storm. It still needs insulation, ventilation, and more paint, but we are getting...

This was a vermicompost harvesting weekend for Peter and me. Our not-so-little army of Gerards has been very busy making gorgeous black,...

Purple Flags With an eye toward expanding our vegetable and pollinator-friendly flower gardens in the spring, we must plant this fall. ...

It is possible that no one has ever put these words together in a sentence... At PETEnELLA, we aspire to be a multi-generational worm...

May 14: Just ordered 2350 little critters for our little farm and growing garden project! If you had told me that before the chickens,...

Prepping worm grit for our Gerards. Baking egg shells at 300 degrees for 10 minutes, then crushing them as fine as I can make them. We...