It's the time of the year to show our appreciation for our friends, family and customers with four giveaways. The first one was last...

The season is winding down now. The gardens are looking really ragged, with brown flowers wilting. I try to leave as much of the old...

The season is winding down at the farm. We are still open to the end of October, though. This is a special time of the year - harvest! ...

We had a set-back in our July classes but the two classes we did have were a lot of fun for the participants. We held two soap classes...

7/25 TIE-DYE 101 Fireworks – Spiral - “A” - “V” Patterns Starts at noon and goes to 4pm Bring two 100% cotton t-shirts. $20 per student,...

July update: It's always busy at Windy Thistle lately, between the Fenton Farmer's Market on Saturday mornings and our first class of...

Even when we grow under grow lights and take every precaution we can, our tomatoes still get leggy. But that's not the end of the story...

We have a lot of great things planned this summer at the farm. Thanks to the doctors and nurses, we're finally getting covid-19 under...

I love the air when it's fresh and clean from the night. The last of the frogs are still peeping and the early birds are singing. The...

We've been very beesy around the farm here this week. Milestones have been reached, everyone on the farm but the farmgirls have, at...

This last month has brought remarkable changes to our herb gardens, and a terrific lightning storm came in over the forest. Our cottage...

In the 1860's, Ulysses S. Grant had a farm near St. Louis named "Hardscrabble" because of how hard it is to farm in the Missouri Hills. ...

Last year, we became dairy goat farmers. We didn't know what we were doing but we got a crash course. It was the same way when I got...

A year has come and gone since Windy Thistle has been closed. I feel like it’s been a lifetime since we’ve seen our family, friends and...

We thought we were tiptoeing into keeping goats but a good friend of mine threw us into the deep end! She brought us three new goats...

Every year, I start planning the gardens in December & January. I start seedlings in February and I nurse hundreds of little plants until...

I find all flowers beautiful. Most folks don't know what vegetable or herb flowers look like but they have their own beauty, too. Here...

As I've mentioned before, our wooded lowland below the house has a large dry creek running through it. In time of deluge, five different...

We first started our adventure with bees in 2017. No, we didn't start off with a hive, we started out with books, youtube, bee keeping...

The summer growing season is in full bloom. We’ve got lovely flowers growing in all the gardens, so it’s pretty around the place, no...