Last year I had spoken to my good friend Eric about possibly adopting a few box turtles from a turtle rescue group that he worked with.  Kno...

When one lives on a farm, even a hobby farm such as ours, you become very much in tune with nature, especially the weather.  It affects most...

Last week the Buffalo News' Anne Neville interviewed myself and my beekeeping mentor, Steve Mead, about the fine art and science of bees...

Every morning when we wake up we never really know what is going to be outside the window.  Just the other day we saw this wild looking gro...

Sometime in the last couple days we reached over 10,000 total page views of the blog.  We couldn't be happier to stay in touch with so m...

Cop: "Do you own horses?"  Me: "Yeaaaaa, whyyyyyy???"  Cop: "Because they are at your neighbors house, and we are p...

It's that time of year when the pasture is aglow with one of my favorite creatures in all the world, the firefly, aka lightning bugs.  I...

Our back pasture which comprises about half of our 3.5 acres is one of my favorite places.  It is lush, tranquil and reminds me of England...

I am incredibly happy to report that the new bee hive is thriving.  With the amount of pollen and blooming everything around I am not surpri...

~ 2 weeks ago our rescued potbellied pig, Morgan came up acutely lame.  Acute in that the day before she was fine and very mobile.  I knew s...