Guest-post and photography by Anna Goodling You always know summer has come when the Farmer’s Markets start. Brightly-colored tents scattered around a small country common-green backed by a tall white steeple or a red brick schoolhouse attract local Vermont residents and out-of-state visitors alike. Vendors hawk their wares in good ol’ Vermont style, with a twinkle in their eye and … Read More

This weekend we readied the barn for lambing. With our first possible due dates just a week away, we needed to get our lambing area set up. We have a large horse stall in the barn that has become our laboring ward for the ewes. We keep a deep bed of hay there and only open it up when we … Read More

When I taught kindergarten in the public school, the children and I kept a weather calendar each month. For the month of March, I had a pocket full of cards that either had the face of a lion or the face of a lamb on them. Each day, we would decide if the day had calm, warm, weather like a … Read More