Farm Dover

Friends are coming for dinner tomorrow night and pears are perfectly in season. So in honor of friends and fall, I baked a cake tonight. T...

Someday is not a day of the week.  – Author Unknown Today was the day that I was going to tell you about our trip to Germany. I intended to...

One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith, And one is for love, you know, And God put another in for luck, - If you search, you will fi...

I'm so confused. I've lost all track of the days of the week. I think it must be Tuesday, and I know I'm in Beilstein,Germany. I...

A quick trip out to the garden yielded a plethora of late-season salad makings. Doesn't get any fresher than this!

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.  The next best time is now.    ~Chinese Proverb Ten October Glory Maple trees planted las...

Please welcome my guest blogger today: Ed Galloway “Except as a fellow handled an ax, they had no way of knowing a fool.”   
 – Rob...

It’s been nearly a year since I published my first blog post on Farm Dover – and much has happened in those 12 months.  Ed and I have...

On Friday afternoon Ed and I made our way into downtown Shelbyville for lunch and a few errands. We parked the truck on Main Street and walk...

I wish you could see us now. It is late Monday afternoon. The temperature has dropped 35 degree since this time yesterday. The clouds are ha...

Ed and I dropped Jack at the Louisville airport this morning. The ride in from Shelby county was quiet -- none of us exactly felt like talki...

I woke up this morning. Alone. Jack and Ed had slipped out of the house before dawn to go fish the Elkhorn Creek near Frankfort -- a bit of ...

Hurricane Irene is headed for the East Coast and so I headed for home yesterday afternoon. I had been in Baltimore, getting Mary settled in ...

My neighbor told me recently that our little part of Dover Road was known as Tornado Alley , not the most encouraging thought. But all in al...

I don't think Helen Reddy was singing about the how great it feels to fell a tree with a brand new chainsaw, but I'm telling you, it...

The banged up red Ford van is gone.  It was the van with redneck jumping-bass decal on the rear window, the one that Paul put on as a joke y...

Crows are supposedly very smart birds. I'm not sure that we will outsmart them with our new scarecrow. But it is worth a try... Molly ...

Green zucchini, red tomato, yellow squash, pink potato, green zucchini, red tomato... That's the pattern I was following on Friday mor...

The first question that people ask when they hear that we've moved to a farm is: Do you have any chickens yet? Raising chickens is defin...

It all started when I headed out to the garden to check on the puny cucumber plant that I had bought late in the season at the Shelbyvi...

I was tidying up the back porch this morning and reached down to pick up the canvas grill cover that had been lying in the corner all ...

Zinnias Cucumbers, zucchini  and Sun Gold tomatoes Rainbow chard

I need to back up a week or so and tell you about a cooking class that I took with Maggie at Fox Hollow Farm just before we...

Just around one corner of Joe Lake is Jump Rock. It is legendary as the place where the bravest of the brave Taylor Statten ...

Since we had traveled so far to pick up Jack, it seemed a shame to turn right around and head home, so a trip to Algonquin P...

. With Mary’s U of L summer literature class over and Jack conceding that it was time to come home, we packed the car and he...

Like a good pickup truck, a good pizza is hard to find. For years, we have been on a quest to find the perfect-crusted pizza and have...