Farm Life
How life looks to us down on the Farm.
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The Debate
THE debate of our lifetime. Which will you choose?
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A Restful Day
All is quiet on the Farm on Sundays, as each member gets the rest they need.
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And Speaking of Field Trips
One of the very best things about being a home-schooled family is all the Field Trips you can and should take. For the Farmer’s Wife that’s local stops every Friday, with a longer trip planned a couple times a year. The Friday Field Trips this year have included Nature Hikes (Lockport Nature Trail on Slayton Settlement Road), Apple Picking (Lynoaken Farms), and having the kids run and play at the park (Day Road Park, Lockport, NY). It gives the kids a chance to get together, and get some much needed energy spent. But it can also be educational, too. In the case of LynOaken, they have over three hundred and…
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To Home school or not Home school? That is the question.
Over the course of days and months and years many have asked the Farmer’s Wife why she should choose to home-school her children, especially lately, when so many are taking the notion into consideration. And to each and now to you as well, she gives the same answer. “It’s a question we ourselves ask each year.” And that is true. Each year a family meeting is held, where it is decided if home-schooling is still the best choice for their family. Some years it’s not. This year it was. And here is why: People who are making decisions about school–how to have it, or even if to have it keep…
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The Way With The Farmer
Surely, you have been waiting all weekend long to discover what the Farmer chose to do on his special day–maybe you pictured a day of leisure–the Farmer works so hard, a day of doing nothing and then nothing some more would be just what he needs. But that is not the way with the Farmer. Maybe you thought he’d feast all day, after all, the Farmer’s Wife told him she would make whatever he wanted! But that is not the way with the Farmer. Or maybe you thought he would pass the day with friends, celebrating fifty years well spent. If that is what you guessed, then Bravo! My hat…
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What Half a Century Looks Like
Today, yes, this very day is the Farmer’s Birthday! And not just any birthday, today the Farmer has been on this earth five decades, indeed, a half a century. And how does one celebrate such a momentous occasion on the Farm? Any way the Farmer wants. What that looks like is simply this: If the Farmer wants to sleep in, he will. If he wants to get up with the Chickens, he can. If he wants to make cookies and pies and eat them in his p.js, that’s fine, too (doubtful, but fine). Basically, stating, no plans have been made. No celebrations, no parties, no gatherings. When the Farmer’s Wife…
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Harvest Time on the Farm
Harvest time has officially come to the Farm–the apples are all in and put up–some sauced and some dried and some just eaten right off the tree. The squashes line the far cellar floor–all kinds– buttercup and butternut, acorn and pumpkins. Now, just the pie pumpkins of course. The cutting-kind are outside–you can see them in the picture above. The Rhubarb has just been brought in, most of it frozen for making pink drink and fruit leather all winter long. But some was turned into jelly, into the two types the Farmer’s Wife likes: Pink (studded with rose petals and hips) and Red (filled to the brim with that spicy…
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Jacob’s Invention
