Welcome to our blog.

We are a family of four who recently moved to our dream property.  The house was built in 1937.  It has its faults, such as a lack of insulation, knob and tube wiring, galvanized plumbing and really poor well water.  Despite these warts, what drew us was the fact that the house is the two and half open acres abutting a nature reserve, which is a rarity in my humble opinion.  More importantly, we get full sunlight during the three days the sun is out a year in the Pacific Northwest.

Our goal in moving was to produce as much of our own food as possible.  I admit it's pretty trendy these days, kinda like blogging.  The new ethos of the suburban middle class is trending toward self-sufficiency with young couples trying their hand at farming influenced by the horrors associated with factory meat raising, rising food costs and a desire to feed our children with naturally raised food.  It all sounds pretty groovy but we are not proselytizing.  For our family, smallholding is a welcome distraction from the rigors of our jobs and provides us with a source of ingredients for our other passion of eating well.

This blog serves as our diary for all of the adventures and misadventures in super-small time farming.  There will be at least two contributors, one of us an excellent writer the other not so much.