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A Good Week 3

Amanda and I are finishing a week away from our respective jobs, during which both of us focused on the farm. If this is a foretaste of our lives on the farm, we will enjoy this next phase in our marriage.


Breakdowns 1

This started out as a post about our morning routine. But like our routine yesterday morning, it changed when the coffee maker stopped working. Now it’s about stuff that breaks.


But in an Emergency . . . 1

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.


About Longleaf Pines 2

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.


The Size of Our Houses

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.


Hoping for Mayberry

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 […]


The Joy of Seed Savers Exchange

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!


Reveling in a World of 24/7 Servers

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 […]