Five Years in the Tumble Dryer of Life

It's been a full five years since I posted on my blog. That feels like a chasm of time. What have I been doing with myself? Just a few things have happened in the interval: the Cantankerous Farmer and I added another Wee Farmer to our family, I got a job that I love, we rearranged our farming venture significantly, and I'm sure a few other things happened that I'm forgetting about. My memory of the last five years is patchy due to so, so many hours of lost sleep. But this past year I feel like I've emerged from a fog. Wee Farmer II, let's call him William, since that's his name, is a big, independent four-year-old. Wee Farmer I, Taiya, is a big, even more independent first grader. And the Cantankerous Farmer, Jeremy, is actually a tiny bit less cantankerous, though he probably doesn't realize it.

My recent passions have been: understanding the intricacies of soil ecology, continuing to hone my skills as a poet, attempting to include more fermentation in my cooking and eating, and I just got a froe for Christmas so I'm going to try to learn how to split shingles. Because why not?

I am going to try to start posting more regularly about our farm, food discoveries, family, and writing. Here's to the next five years!