I was going to write about how the harvest is in and tell you about putting away all the machinery, but alas, I digress with an...

We closed down the store for the 2021 season and cleared everything out to winterize. This morning I had the chance to go back through...

Besides all the normal autumnal events on a farm, we've had a few exhilarating moments and stretches. Not only is this landscape...

It's raining today so the harvest is on hold. Instead, William is cleaning rye for planting, moving around some equipment and probably...

News of the weird, impulse, instinct, sex drive, survival of the fittest...climate change, global warming, chaos...things are not normal...

It's time to plant garlic! If you're culinary in the kitchen, you will appreciate having your own garlic to use from mid-summer all the...

Sometimes I have to trick myself to get anything done! When feeling overwhelmed with things that should be done, my strategy is to decide...

My gardens at the Dirt Farm are permanent raised beds. I don't have any fancy boxes just mounds of dirt with walkways between. On top of...

This past Sunday transported me back in time to the days before machinery, automobiles and high density living. For some reason, the...

I've loved hot peppers all my life, but especially since 5th grade, when interest in boys began to surface. One summer night I was with...

Someone asked my recently why I call my farm the "Dirt Farm." Well, that's got me mind-wandering down a long road of insights. My farm is...

In my former life as a teacher, this was always the time of year I'd be heading back to the classroom leaving garden maintenance for...

We got away from the farm for a couple of days to play tourists. As lovely as it was to enjoy a glass of wine from the hotel deck chairs...

The farm is full of busy spiders this time of year. I always think of late summer and early fall as "Spider Season" as these eight-legged...

The sunflower fields are blooming all around the Midwest! It's time to make a farm visit to share in the cheerful explosion of color! Not...

Mr. Combine came out of the shed to get washed for the rye harvest, and our new little duckies had a hay day! These little waddlers...

Our constant companion, lover of all people, the sweetest three-legged farm dog ever will no longer accompany us when we work, celebrate...

It's tourist season. Many folks are out and about on summer vacations driving past roadside signs that offer some sort of attraction, fun...

The Driftless Dirt Farm photo by Bob Wiesner Glamorous idea - move to the idyllic country where life is peaceful, fresh food abundant and...

Recently, I realized my own biases about what constitutes farming. As a point of reference, and likely surprising to some, I absolutely...