When you dedicate a day to processing the summer's finest tomatoes, you're not just chopping veggies—you're pouring your heart and soul into a tomato-y adventure. After spending a season planting, pampering, watering, and waging war against garden pests who think they own the place, it's time to cook up some homemade tomato sauce. Having done this before, I wasn't expecting anything less than a delicious pot of saucy goodness and a kitchen that smells like tomato heaven. Well

Happy Labor Day! The weather is teasing us with fall-like temperatures and lower humidity... it might just be fake fall here in Virginia, but we love it! This weekend, we enjoyed the company of my sister on the homestead, and we were able to accomplish much.

Peter and I make dramatic changes to the garden, which feels like a big loss, but find wins along the way...

“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.” — Hippocrates “A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ.” — John Steinbeck...

In a scene in the 1990's movie "Father of the Bride," Steve Martin's character loses his cool in the grocery store....as he rips out the...

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

Peter successfully picked up our new bees from his friend's apiary on Wednesday evening. We're excited to have a second hive back on the...

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

We have another new critter on the farm, Black Soldier Flies (BSFs). Our goal is to create food for the chickens we plan to get next...

This week, Peter and I launched a YouTube channel. We hope it will offer a way to share insights into our processes and strategies for...

Japanese beetles love our gardens and orchard. They have made quick, destructive work of our apple trees, beans and zinnias...apparently...

Did you know that if you are a novice beekeeper descending the slick, wood-floor stairs in your stocking feet, carrying a recently...

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...

Not the weekend we planned for, but we made the best of it. What we had in mind was a weekend with friends, what happened was rough...

We cleaned up what we could last night with an army of angry bees reminding us that what happened is not okay. Crime scene investigation...