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'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...

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...

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...

Tomatoes have to be one of our favorite fruits in the garden. I grow a lot every year, usually between thirty and fifty plants. This year...

Getting Around Windy Thistle has never been easy. When we first came to our glen, it was pretty bare bones. There weren’t any gardens or...

It's been a month since I've shared the happenings at Windy Thistle Farm. We're still closed to visitors right now. We've started our...

It’s a worrisome time in the world right now but the worries at Windy Thistle are all about putting in the new garden beds, building...

We're finally watching the woods green up and it's starting to green up inside, as well. We've started well over 700 plants and that's...

We're taking applications for our community service agriculture gardens. We only have so much available so we'd like to make sure you...

It's starting the long slide into spring. Days are getting longer and warmer. All this is exciting to the world around us. The other...

What is up with the bees dying? While there is more than one reason, we have narrowed it down to just a few and one of them you CAN do...

Oh, It's getting hard to wait for the spring now. I look out on the witchy winter woods, with their long grasping branches and dark...

It’s time for planning and plotting out the gardens for this year. What? It’s only January, you say? Well, this is the lull before the...

We're going to be doing a lot of hands-on classes this year and we've locked down our schedule until the end of May. You can sign up for...

Winter is a quiet time at Windy Thistle. Everything is shut down. The gardens are brown and weedy looking since we leave the plants to...