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Farmer Mike has a lot a in common with his dad.  They have both dedicated their lives to agriculture. Both can drive tractors and have tempers. Both have the faces of humans who work in the [...]

This week’s newsletter is a shout out to Farmer Mike for keeping all the crops on the farm watered. Despite last night’s sprinkling, we haven’t seen a good rain since Sunday, [...]

Just like I followed the yoga wave that flowed off the west coast to the midwest mainstream in the early 2000s, I am joining the millions of Americans now trying to learn how to meditate. [...]

Sitting around a fire the other evening with some farm friends (social distancing of course!), we were talking about seasons and how we feel the rhythms and pulses of the natural world around us. [...]

There’s this Ani DiFranco song where she sings, “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff. When I look up, I just trip over things.” I have always loved this line. I [...]

The Mellowhood Connection For those of you who know about our efforts to provide families in Madison’s Meadowood neighborhood with free, healthy food, this newsletter will be [...]

Making it Through the Heat It’s hot. You know this. We know this. We thought you might be interested to hear how our crew makes it through the heat.  Here’s how we do it: [...]

Leapfrogging Cells Recently my mother asked me to try and explain how and why farming can be so stressful this time of year. For years she’s heard me say it’s a crazy time of year, [...]

Our farm is made up of two parcels of land.  We commute ( a rough 4 minutes) between these two parcels. On the weekends, it means I drag our 3 children to the main farm operation to do all the [...]

In mid April, as the the reality of the pandemic was setting in, we got worried. We knew veggie shares would be in high demand due to closed or restricted farmers markets, and for that we were [...]

Farm Steady Every week this season, I’ll be sharing with you a little sliver of my life here on the farm. Our culture has lost its connection to the process of growing food, to being deeply [...]

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COVID-19 & the Farm: FAQs and Updates To our 2020 veggie share members and folks considering joining: May you be well. We wanted to write and assure each of you that our veggie share program [...]

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