Mama Kay’s Reflections

After years of talking, months of looking and planning—we have a contract on our first piece of land. It is a 1500 sq ft house with 4 bedrooms and 2 baths on 3.3 acres in a rural area just outside of town. Still in the desert but this is our practice place. Our chance to [...]

I just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver.

I loved reading this description of how one family decided to grow as much of their own food as they could and only purchase what they could find in their own county for one year. They moved from Arizona to Virginia [...]

Last January I told you that we were setting aside a jar to donate money for World Vision and I wanted to give you a followup on our progress.

On Christmas morning after we opened our gifts we counted up the money we saved all year. Plus final donations from everyone including our family that was [...]

Our CSA farmer retired last week. We were sad to say goodbye although we are happy for them that they are moving to a more rural area where it is cooler and I’m sure they will be much happier.

The girls and I went out to the farm last week to say goodbye and pick up [...]