As seen on the farm just now.

Bamboo leaf icicles after the ice storm.

Live footage of my sheep waiting for me to finish building their new paddock this morning. #grazing #icelandicsheep #farmlife

Raising kids during an ongoing global pandemic has been challenging in many ways, but in others it’s been an opportunity to connect to more simple things. We were already homeschooling/unschooling before, so not much changed there, although each day is a journey on that level as well.
A big change has been having almost all of our social time with friends be outside - in all weather. Our kids have become fire experts through the dark and rainy winters - here’s their latest creation. 🔥🔥🔥

Our tiny house all dressed up for a solstice party…I know, not quite solstice but in Oregon you’ve gotta make hay (or outdoor parties) while the sun shines and next week the rains return for the foreseeable future.

Throwback to our first growing season on our farm. Our dog is still a puppy loving to roll in the crimson clover. We cultivated about 1/2 an acre of our lower field where the best soil is and got some bumper crops for a few years. Then we had kids and farm productivity declined significantly 😅. But we’ve since planted lots of perennials and have a great garden near our house. Someday we’ll get back to the lower field, but for now it’s sheep pasture… #regenerativeagriculture

Made a big heap of #biochar from a #restorationforestry project today. Lots of steam as the pile is quenched. Lots of carbon sequestered!

A few pictures to describe what we’ve been up to lately - digging a test pit to determine water holding capacity in a potential pond, making biochar with local high school students as part of a community-based restoration forestry program, hanging out with pour flock of Icelandic sheep, and planting native clack walnuts (Juglas hindsii) in the riparian corridor of land we steward. Lots of fun, lots of work, lots to balance. But it feels good to be working towards regeneration at every step.

My kid’s decoration style these days brings a lot of fun to the house.