It's been rainy for the last few days and we all needed a little comfort. Shepherd's Pie is not only savory and filling but it's also an...

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...

Long ago, my father told me that people who get ahead, live on purpose. He explained to me that as long as you have goals, you will stay...

Twelve years ago, when we first decided that we wanted to live life out of the fast lane, we wrote down our 'want list'. On that list...

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...

Just what we were waiting for. The air filled with bees, madly flying, thousands of them. We started running for the bee-suits. We had...

A lot of folks are interested in growing their own food these days. Gardening sites abound but there is also a growing interest in urban...

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...

Just when things were falling into place here at Windy Thistle, it seems that the world fell apart. We're closed to visitors now. We've...

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...

This is Julius. He is a Black Jersey Giant. He's a very pretty boy and big! He commands the chicken yard. He picks out the tastiest...

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

I get asked for recipes for some of the meals I serve here at Windy Thistle. Sometimes the recipe is a very old one that I've been...

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...

It's out with the old year, and in with some new Roosters! My daughter-in-love brought me two big boys that needed a new home. While...