Farm Dover

I woke up early this morning, very early. A strange brightness was piercing our usually dark bedroom. I slid out of bed and peeked out the w...

I'm pretty sure my city friends will be convinced that I've totally lost it when they find out that we have recently added 500 earth...

Just back from a week of bass fishing at The Juniper Club on the Silver Glen of Lake George, near Ocala, Florida. It's one of my favorit...

Make the community able to invest in itself...by caring for its old people, and teaching its children .  – Wendell Berry   Funny how ...

Since we moved to the country, we have given up reading current newspapers (except for the Shelby County Sentinel-News ). Instead, we read t...

The calendar says it is mid-winter. Yet as I walk this morning the sun is warm on my face and I hear more bird song than in the past few wee...

When I married Ed 25 years ago I had to learn "The Galloway Way" of doing things. The Galloway Way encompasses how one approaches ...

One of my favorite parts about our new life here on the farm is the unending opportunities to learn new things. Whether it is planting trees...

One day last month District Forester Ben Lyle from the Kentucky Division of Forestry spent the better part of an afternoon tromping around F...

Thousands of boisterous grackles feed in our backyard.

Just back from a week in Mustique with my three sisters. Our aunt had reserved a beautiful villa and, at the last minute, was unable to get ...

Ed is off to fish at The Juniper Club this week. Mary and I are left at home to fend for ourselves – which we do quite well. While we dearl...

It's January 8th. The sun is shining and it is a warm 51 degrees outside – so warm in fact, that I shed my fleece and work in just shirt...

There has been a bowl of cayenne peppers sitting on our kitchen counter for months and today was the day I finally took action. I harvested ...

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.   – Benjamin Franklin Back in December Maggie and Ed hatched a plan to b...

Look what Maggie got for Christmas! It's a bee house, designed and built by Maggie's friend Doug (dad of Maggie's boyfriend, Nat...

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree . It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love." -Linus, ...

Ed and I spent the better part of a recent sunny day clearing a trail that we hope will someday soon circumnavigate our property. We start...

Our Buddy is far away this Christmas in Germany. We all miss him so much...and I think he is missing us as well. Here are the Christmas gree...

There are certain dishes that I make only once a year and I make them only at certain times of the year. Osso Buco is one of those dishes. ...

Buddy, it's fruitcake weather! -  "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote Growing up I was subjected to dozens of my mo...

I was alone in the kitchen today baking an early batch of holiday cheesestraws. I wanted to get a tin of them mailed off to Jack in Germany ...