Edible Wild Plants

This week I taught a class on edible wild plants of the Pacific Northwest. It was a lot of fun. I love the topic but most of all it was fun because I love spending time with our second-year apprentices. There is a special bonding that takes place after spending a weekend per month together [...]

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Catching a Swarm of Bees

Sorry it’s been a few days since I have written. Life has been busy here! Two days ago, I was out working on the new chicken coop roof (I swear there is a conspiracy against me so we don’t get it done) when I hear a noise. I stopped working and followed it to a [...]

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Exploring Spring with Simon

High 59    Low 40            Overcast morning with clear afternoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xWHETBd8BA SongCroft Spring Tour (click above to see the video) Today was the first warm day in along time. I actually saw people in shorts and tank tops. With all of the hail and heavy rains of late, I think people were truly optimistic and taking [...]

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Our Vegetable Garden is Lonely

High 43 Low 35  (Heavy rains all day mixed with hail) It’s been a windy and wet week. Twice I have been trying to get work done outside only to have a shower of hail come down on me like it was raining bb’s. That’s when it’s smart to wear a hat with a brim. [...]

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The Girl in the Video

High 59   Low 37    Cold grey morning with afternoon sun Girl In The Video ( Click to See s video of Shug at on week old) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p073S7iHVMk&feature=channel This is the girl in the video that so many of you have been asking about. She is a week old now and we finally got [...]

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A Self-Sufficient Farm

Shugs Birth (click here the title to see the video) High 42 Low 38 The sky is shifting between sun breaks and darkness. It’s cheese making time and the kids and I are ready with the molds! Part of our path towards having a self-sufficient lifestyle is to raise dairy goats. Raising dairy goat be [...]

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Easter Bunnies, Eggs and Goat Kids

High 55 Low 31 Overcast Morning with blue skies in the afternoon but it’s pouring now! Wow, what a busy day. It has rained and even hailed here most of the week so when I woke up this morning to mild weather, I put my working clothes on and got busy! After getting the kids [...]

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Natural Colored Easter Eggs are Fun for the Family!

The kids and I will be dying eggs this weekend. It is kind of funny since our hens lay blue, green, pink, brown, white and tan eggs it always seems like we have Easter eggs anyway.  Some years they just stuck stickers and colored on the eggs because they liked the colors as they were [...]

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Smells Like Spring!

High 65 Low 43 Cool morning with warm afternoon. Sky was blue by noon. I spent today puttering around on the land finishing lots of little things that needed to get done as well as taking care of a few larger things. I moved all of the pullets to the big brooder. That means we [...]

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Spring Leaps!

High 56             Low 45                 Warm afternoon breeze Spring ahead? Not us, we’re taking giant leaps! There’s been a ton of stuff happening at SongCroft this week. Where can I begin…? Over the course of the week we brought in a bit more hay to get us [...]

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