Amanda and I are spending this next week at the farm. More precisely, we’re spending days at the farm and nights at the cabin our family owns on Lake Martin. In preparation for a week away from home, Amanda washed and dried three large loads of laundry last night.
It has now been a little more than six weeks since my knee injury. Here’s a quick update on what’s happened since then. Mostly good news.
Two years ago, we had never heard of longleaf pines. Now we’ve learned to recognize them, fallen in love with them, and named our farm for them. It’s time to tell you how this came to be.
As we start out learning to be subsistence farmers, we’re hungry to hear what others have done, the smart decisions they’ve made as well as the mistakes. So we want to do that for others. My hope is that this will become a semi-regular feature here on Longleaf Breeze.
The house where we now live until our move this summer is 2300 square feet on two floors plus a basement. That makes it one of the smaller in our neighborhood, but by any standard that matters it’s obscenely large.
What will life be like when petroleum is no longer cheap the way it is now, or maybe not available at all? Are we heading for a Mad Max scenario? As Amanda and I envision Longleaf Breeze, the answer almost has to be no. So I was glad to read […]
We joined the Seed Savers Exchange back in the fall, knowing it was one of the many ways we could begin to learn about the challenges we face as beginners in this whole subsistence farming “thing.” The other day we got the big 2009 Yearbook. What fun!
I’m a morning person; always have been. I can go to bed hopelessly confused about a vexing problem and wake up at 4:30 knowing exactly how to solve it. Sleep is nature’s reboot, and I’m grateful for it. So this morning I was up as usual about 4:30, and I […]
I’m way late in telling you about the injury to my knee. I posted about it in the little Blogspot blog we created and then forgot to post it on the real blog here. So here it is, a day late and a dollar short, all about my busting up […]
From our first conversation about learning to be subsistence farmers, we’ve had a shared fascination about cooking with a solar oven. So it surprised no one when my Christmas gift to Amanda this year was a Global Sun Oven. We were expecting it to be an expensive novelty, but it […]
