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Brad

Brad

culture club, gifts, goodlifery, holidays December 16, 2020 December 16, 2020

Skeleton at the Feast 2020

I don’t care if you’ve taken just seventeen trips around the sun or seventy of them, you can’t name a more challenging year for…

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The park bench threw a monkey wrench
d.i.y., Dew Point Farm, homesteading, recycling November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020

Pallet cleanser

It’s the first week of actual quarantine, in March, when cars aren’t on the road much and the world is deliciously quiet. It’s weird….

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Dew Point Farm, farming, growing food, local food July 29, 2020 July 29, 2020

To market, to market

The man was thin, wearing a mask, and old. Seventy-two, I think he told Jenn. He was walking by the gate to Dew Point…

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Northen Mockingbird, aka The Devil
goodlifery, homesteading, local food May 23, 2020 May 25, 2020

Beast of Birdin’

“Go home! You’re drunk!” It’s what we’ve groaned several times over the past two weeks, when we — stricken by the middle-age malady of…

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Dew Point Farm, farming, growing food, local food, low-impact development May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020

The story in the soil

Life for most folks during the past six weeks or so of COVID-19 quarantine probably feels like it’s going in slo-mo. Many are reading…

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goodlifery, growing food, homesteading, local food April 6, 2020 April 6, 2020

A thousand words

While everyone’s stuck in, we thought we’d just share a small collection of photos from around the happy hermitage that is our home. Fruit trees and bushes in bloom, flowers popping out for a quick visit, or other promises of wonderful things to come.

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Dew Point Farm, farming, growing food, local food March 11, 2020 March 11, 2020

The Good Earth

At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man’s cunning. — Charles…

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not much of a security fence
d.i.y., Dew Point Farm, farming, growing food, local food, low-impact development January 29, 2020 January 29, 2020

Good Fences

It’s not the first question everyone asks us about our farm. It’s the second one. The first is, “What are you going to grow?”…

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Skeleton at the Feast
culture club, gifts, holidays December 20, 2019 December 20, 2019

Skeleton at the Feast 2019

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Which is to say, it’s the time when I get to give friends the gift of…

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