HOME AGAIN.

It's been quiet on the blog for the past week, mostly because we are home and no longer have the internet everyday! It was straight back to work - baling hay, popping and planting garlic, hauling the remainder of the squash indoors before the cold snap, midwife appointments and CSA deliveries - all over the past few days. And still, we are oh-so-content to be home. With all the stresses of the past month - the turkeys and pigs and goats escaping CONSTANTLY and destroying gardens and pooping all over our storage crops and causing us to question what we are doing wrong - I had this fear that we would never want leave Cape Cod. So it was nice to feel that pull for home as our vacation came to an end.We will try to have the blog back up with regularly scheduled posts soon. But today, we are enjoying this frosty weather, loading up the woodstove, and pretending that we don't hear the pig who is rooting around in the front yard.- Hannah.

WENDELL WEDNESDAY.

Missed this guy last week. If only the Wendell Bear fit in a suitcase. Or a car.

WHOLE LARDER LOVE AND THE NURSERY PROJECT.

I have a favorite blog––have for a long time now. The guy who runs it is named Rohan and he's a good dude that, much like me––much like many new small farmers––did not always eat the best, live the best, or care that much about the environment. But that changed and so did he. Now, several years later, he and his family are embarking on a really special project––a project near and dear to our hearts––one I would love to see our friends and followers helping us to support.The Nursery Project, though based all the way around the world, hits really close to home (sorry, couldn't help it). They are attempting to raise money to build a place where people can go to learn about food and agriculture, health and wellness.And the reason I am so passionate about helping spread the word on this is because I can't wait to see what they do, to see if it could become a model for similar nurseries around the world. However, there is a lot of money that needs to be raised, and a lot of work that needs to be done, between then and now. So take a look at their page and please consider donating something––even a dollar would help––and sharing it in your social media. It's for a great cause that will cause a lot of good, and this is a chance for all of us to be a part of something truly special.Click, donate, share, support.- Jesse.

EARTHY.

There haven't always been seven billion people on the earth, or thousands of giant buildings or factories or M1 Abrams and yet, no matter what we've added to the surface, we have never really changed the weight of our planet. Earth has always been pretty much the same inconceivably ridiculous number (13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, or thereabouts) that it was when we got here. And to me this is both the most obvious fact in the world, and the most profound.And the reason I say this is profound is because thinking about the world this way gives me a greater respect for everything manmade that I can hold, as––directly or indirectly––it has all been lifted out of the earth at some point. Every car, every building every device and every human has been at some point in time part of the planet. Which includes, naturally, excitingly, our baby.Our baby will be made of the beef from Moonie, the cow the Smiths split with us, who herself was made from the grass of the farm. Sweet corn and sweet potatoes, blueberries and beets will make our baby, which themselves, fueled by sunlight, came from dirt. And we will raise our children to understand where they came from, too, and what fuels them, in hopes that they will learn to treat the planet with the same respect they treat themselves. Because we are––mathematically, scientifically and proverbially––one and the same thing.- Jesse.