Farm Dover

Spring is a time of plans and projects. - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Yes, plans and projects are in full swing at Farm Dover, even thou...

My sister, Sherry Carpenter Leavell, delivered this eulogy at my mom's memorial service this morning. It was not so much a eulogy as it...

Spring needs to get a move on around here. Our wood pile has gone from this: To this: Of course, we have multiple woodpiles scatt...

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pa...

This long-lasting snow cover has not kept me from my daily walks on the farm trails. It has kept me occupied with trying to identify the an...

What a difference between now and this time last year... February 11, 2014 February 11, 2013

I love to be invited to friends' homes for dinner and see what they serve for appetizers – and I'm almost always impressed. Smoked s...

Like in so many parts of the country, winter is hanging on hard. Seems like Farm Dover has been covered in a blanket of snow and ice for wee...

Everything I know about propane I have learned from Hank Hill of King of the Hill  animated sitcom fame. Hank sells propane and propane acce...

People all over the world know my hometown, Louisville, as home of the Kentucky Derby. What fewer people know is that on the day before the...

Two years ago Ed and I travelled to Germany to visit our son Jack who was teaching there for the year. After visiting him in the small town ...

Ed and I spent the better part of the morning walking the farm's trails, stopping to inspect our seedling trees and tying new orange rib...

Today marks the end of January 2014. It leaves us with memories of the coldest month we've ever had here at Farm Dover, multiple morning...

Friend Karen came out yesterday bearing a pineapple plant for my birthday gift. It already has a tiny pineapple sprouting from its crown. Ne...

My birthday was last week and Ed and I celebrated with dinner at Husk in Charleston. Then tonight, Maggie, Nate, Mary and John came out for ...