My birthday week — So much chicken drama! About ten days ago I brought a new chicken home from the city. The husband of one of the urban staff members found the chicken in his front yard and had been keeping her in a dog crate and feeding her bread. …

Yael Wolfe is right and what are we going to do about it — A little while ago, one of my favorite writers on Medium, Yael Wolfe, wrote a piece about how she has essentially given up on sex with men. She did not want to have to say “no, thank you” to men, but one bad experience after another convinced her. She is…

How my genealogy quest for pioneer ancestors was corrupted by made-up stories — The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves matter. As an amateur genealogist, my goal is to hold up a mirror to myself and to my clients so that our stories are true stories. Capitalism is propped up by simplistic stories that deliberately hide the truth: Rich people create jobs. Trickle-down…

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! And have a sweet new year to all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah — This week has been a full week of harvesting and hosting on the farm. On Tuesday we had our biggest harvest of the season so far: Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, Hot Peppers, Cucumbers, Zucchini, Herbs of many varieties, Carrots, Beets, Turnips, Radishes, Potatoes, Cut Flowers, Broccoli, Cabbage, Kale, Collards, Cantaloupe, Watermelon…

“The temperature went from 90 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.” It was very hot this past weekend. Like end of the world, how could this happen in September, get the kiddie pool out for the llamas kind of hot. It was so hot I canceled our Morris…

(Fake) News from the near future President Harris today was unable to stop a new law from going into effect that allows AI versions of former politicians to serve as President. …

First market day of the year — Our farm is weird. We don’t do any markets in the summer. We time our first market to be the week of the back-to-school night, and then we go til the end of October. We shifted from the typical peak harvest season of July and August to September and October…

There is a “dress up for a weekend” season in the United States that extends from early summer to late September. People (mostly white folks, but everyone is invited) attend Civil War reenactments, Voyaguer Rendevous, Pioneer Camps, and, of course, Renaisance Faires. Attending Ren Faires seems to be an activity…

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot! This week marked the turning point in our garden season. The staff of the school we work for reported back to work and everyone came out to the farm for their first day back. It was just before the heat wave, so people could still enjoy…