Kidding season is well under way here at the farm. It is always a joy to get to this point in the year, to see the hard work of the previous year culminating in little ones bouncing around the farm. This winter in Western New York was a particularly cold and long one. We went through a lot of hay, bedding, and hot water keeping our animals sheltered from the cold. As we began milking again this morning on the farm I was reminded again of all that goes into getting to this p

If you live in the beautiful Sate of Western New York, you know that no matter what the calendar says, spring begins when it is good and ready. It doesn't matter what the calendar says. In fact, it would get to this time of year, and I would be speaking with family back home in England and they would be declaring with joy that the snow drops and crocuses were appearing in their gardens. Meanwhile, I would look longingly out the window at the snow-covered fields rather envi

Lemonade that is what you are supposed to make when life gives you lemons. I haven't made lemonade yet. Maybe it is because I feel like...

Hobby farming, the idyllic picture of a beautiful, quaint farm in the rolling hills, with happy and healthy animals of all sorts of...

I should be in bed by now, I tell myself as I finish off preparing a large order to be delivered to East Aurora tomorrow. How can it be...

Winter on the farm I never feel quite prepared. I have lived in WNY twenty+ years now, and each winter I think I've got it and then we...

Faun trying to see if I have any treats. Winter in all of its harsh beauty has definitely hit Western New York. Today, as I bundled up...

Summer in the snow! I cannot believe yet another year has passed and as I sit here on New Year's Day and think back on all that 2024 has...

Shhhh, do not tell my husband but it is the day before Thanksgiving and as I sit in a house too quiet, (as all of our children are out...

It was still dark as I made my way on the quiet roads between here and Monroe County the moon still full in the sky. The early hours of...

Letchworth it was.... or so I kept telling myself for a couple of weeks. I had been so busy, and I knew I just needed to leave it all...

Fall is in the air, and everything seems to happen all at the same time. School starts back, the apples and pears begin to fall from the...