Hello, sweet friends! So I’ve been promising a big announcement here for awhile and today is the day. You know that we have been expanding our tiny homestead here & I’m so excited to share that today we are launching our new family farm store: Faith & Grace Farm! We are proud to be offering our fresh, homemade artisanal goods, cage-free organic chicken eggs, and local organic honey for sale…
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Marina Grace in the Garden
Read more“The question is not, — how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education — but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds…
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Our First Honey Harvest
Read moreLast week we took our first harvest of honey. What an adventure it has been, a lifetime in the making. I’ve shared before that J. and I each came into our relationship with a dream of keeping honeybees one day. It was quite a surprise…
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summer in our gardens…
Read moreHere we are, friends, it’s the middle of July. Summer is here in all of its glory. I snapped these photographs around our yard on the first of the month. So much has already changed out there. We have so many vegetables on the vines…
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in the garden // mid-august
Read moreThis past month, the garden has provided us with bounty after bounty. We’ve spent hours in the sun caring and tending. We’ve spent beautiful evenings gathering & harvesting. We eat dinner from the garden at least five days each week and many lunches, too. On…
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in the garden // late july
Read moreLate July brings bounty & beauty to our garden. These are my favorite photographs from the garden yet. I could just sit and stare at them all day. They capture the plant life out there so beautifully. What I didn’t capture is the animal life!…
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in the garden // early summer
Read moreHere are a few shots from around the garden. These are only a week old and everything has changed so much already. The only thing that grows more quickly than my children is my garden! We’ve had several delicious harvests thus far — beats, spinach,…
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Our Gardens in June
Read moreIt’s been nearly a month since my last garden post, so it’s time for an update and some progress shots. We had a big spinach harvest two weeks ago and a big romaine harvest last week. Both were delicious. It’s quickly become obvious that if…
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Our Yard & Gardens in May // Part 2
Read moreWelcome to part two of Our Yard & Gardens in May. As I mentioned in part one, there’s so much blooming out there right now that I had to make two posts to cover it all. In this post, I’ll talk about what we’ve got…