Farm Dover

Ed is such a good sport. I plan most of our meals and he never complains about what I fix. This week I may have pushed him over the edge. Yo...

When we planted our fields in native grasses and wildflowers, we included in the mix a large scoop of common milkweed seed. Milkweed: it’...

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at,  what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Di...

One of the things we love about car travel with no set agenda is that we can take last-minute detours to obscure destinations. We do it ofte...

Still lots to gather from the fields...

Last week my Dad turned 84 and to celebrate we gathered for brunch at Wild Eggs in Middletown. It was just the five of us: Dad, my three sis...

Being gone for a month didn't help my garden, which wasn't looking all that great before we left. I need to get out there and yank u...

Notes from Saturday, September 30th I don't know of anyone personally who would think it would be fun to drive for 20 days covering 3,...

We've been away from home for a month. There is grass to cut, weeds to pull, laundry to do, camping gear to clean up, mail to open, bill...

I've been gone – a very long time and a very long way. Ed, Mary and I left on August 31. We dropped Mary off in Brooklyn to begin her ne...

Before Jack headed back to China, he and his dad spent some time chainsawing a downed cherry tree into logs and then splitting them into p...

I bare my hand and dole out shriveled peas, one by one. – from Planting Peas, by  Linda M. Hasselstrom   Seems crazy that I chose the ...

Jack leaves for China very early Wednesday morning, for his next year-long teaching assignment. And Mary came home from Lexington last we...

When I was five, The Mall opened just a mile or two from our house. It's official name really was just  The Mall (now known as Mall St....

We've seen three amazing things around the farm recently and, in all three cases, I didn't have my phone/camera with me to capture t...

Jack is home from China for exactly one month and one day, hardly enough time for me to get my Jack-fix for a whole year. So I was delighte...