I love my life on the farm, I love the opportunities to learn and live meaningful days. But I am not a super human and some days, that sometimes last for weeks, are too challenging to tackle. Not complaining, just sharing! The spring is short here and so much needs to be done! The berries have been arriving box after box. And even though we have allowed ourselves to have some time to prepare and extra time in between the deliveries things have started piling up anyway. Of cou

Our memory is designed to work in an amazing way. We tend to forget the bad days and moments which we encounter a lot in our lives. But when we try to cherish and remember the days that we feel proud of , have worked hard and achieved a lot, it makes us happy, puts a smile on our faces and does ourselves and people around us a big favor. When we make an effort in keeping focused on maintaining the positive attitude this way we get to live another day to the fullest. It was o

Life on the farm is never boring or mandane. It is full of stories, experiences, opportunities and moments that take your breath away. The day started as usual, doing chores after breakfast. By now we have settled into a routine and everybody knows what to do and it seems to work well. Ivana is in charge of preparing the bottles for feeding the goat kids. We have six now altogether that we bottle feed twice a day. Mirek is hand milking the does (four of them) while having the

The weather has been , how should I say it, not very nice. If the calendar wasn't showing me that it is May, I would not have believed that it is spring already! With a very few sunny and warmer days we got teased with but now are back to wearing the jackets and hats. Mirek has been disking and plowing the sod for the raspberry patch. I was sending the kids down there with some warm coffee and baked goodies to help him stay warm. I appointed Sherman to supervise the process t

This is a really great news for Slavic Heritage Farm! We have been on a look out for some so needed machinery to help us save the time with tilling and expanding our gardens and berry patches. Can't do it any more with a hand held rototiller. And finally when the opportunity presented itself we had to grab it! We are now proud owners of a 1987 Belarus tractor and a brand new heavy duty rotary tiller. It had to be a tractor made during the time of our youth and what's more in