The first round of hard cider making we did in 2025 went better than I had expected and I really enjoyed the process. So this year we decided to roughly double the amount of cider we’d make. The process I followed was largely the same as I did last year. Read more…
We’ve learned a lot in the last 3 years of growing garlic. What started last year as a bit of a disappointment with the curing process ended up with my Jumble Garlic planting and a really successful harvest for 2025. I think the one thing though that we didn’t expect Read more…
Looking back at the pictures, I’m realizing now that the vineyard planting we did this year (2025) was a long time in the making. While I mentioned the vineyard in my Getting ready for spring blog post earlier this year, I haven’t yet written about the actual process of planting Read more…
Long before we started making maple syrup at the farm (or before we even owned the farm) – our good friends Dan and Jackie told us stories of this incredible maple syrup shack that Jackie’s dad, Scott, worked at every year. The general gist was that each year Scott, his Read more…
It’s hard to imagine that the last post I made here was in April. I guess it goes to show how fast time flies these days. I can’t believe 2025 is almost gone but I’m also looking forward to things slowing down as they always do for the next couple Read more…
I had intended on writing some more blogs about apple tree grafting this year but I’ll admit that between family, work, apple tree grafting, and maple syrup production I haven’t had as much free time to blog. I spent a good deal of time looking forward to spring this year Read more…
Maple syrup season had a slow start for us this year. Last year the weather was right where we tapped the trees at the end of February and we did our first boil on March 3rd. This year we tapped on March 2nd but only because the forecast made it Read more…
I have been anxiously waiting for maple syrup season to start since it ended last year. We’ve been doing maple syrup for a couple of years now but last year we started taking things more seriously with an eye to start selling the syrup this year as our first farm Read more…
I won’t lie to you folks – I’ve been looking forward to spring since last summer. The farm is a busy place most of the year but tends to calm down for a month or two early in the year when it’s just too cold to do anything outside. While Read more…
As I talked about in my last post we purchased a lumber mill for the farm and I talked about the delivery and building the head. I was able to accomplish that in a weekend of on and off work – it took me about 5 hours total to get Read more…