Entries by Jeanne

Wouldn’t We All Love a Master Plan?

People ask what happens on the farm during the winter. The answer is a lot.: planning, budgeting, and purchasing new equipment.  Since Flynn Creek Farm is still so new to us, our planning is on two levels.  The first is for the short term – what are we going to do next season?  We are […]

The Dis-ease

Many years back my doctor prescribed genetic screening because of a history of cancer in my family.  A finding that had been inconclusive seven years ago was now raising some concern and so I recently returned to Dana Farber Cancer Center in Boston to have blood drawn for an additional screening. As I sat in […]

The Dining

Can anyone really know where their food comes from? One way is to grow it yourself or acquire it from a local CSA or farmer’s market. Some might say limiting one’s diet to that degree equates to deprivation.  Sure, it means giving up bananas and avocados for those of us in northern climes (as well […]

The Harvest

Despite the delays and the drought and the infrastructure challenges, the veggies were planted in the field. The beds were weeded, watered, and well-tended. For the past month beautiful produce has been harvested for Forage Kitchens, a local fast-casual chain of healthy restaurants.  Romaine, kale, basil, Thai basil, cilantro, parsley, peppers, salad mixes, green onions, […]

The Planting

On a day when the news is filled with stories of AI destroying humanity, planting lettuce is a good antidote. Farming, after all, is a grand gesture of hope. On my hands and knees in a field of lettuce, planting what will be in approximately 40 days, the foundation for somebody’s grain bowl equates to […]

The Water

When we first stepped foot on Flynn Creek Farm, there was a relatively modern home on the property, constructed in 2014, in addition to a not so new barn and an equipment shed.  There were agricultural fields, rocky forests, and land in a government conversation program.  We saw abundant opportunities for produce fields and greenhouses, […]

The Listening

One of the first things that hit me after Arriving on the farm was the quiet. I’ve written about seeking silence in blog posts before, but landing here, I think I’ve found it. Of course, our remote rural location presents challenges when it comes to infrastructure this city girl always took for granted – such […]

Arriving

This essay was originally published on Medium.com We allowed four days to drive from Park City to Verona, WI. It was actually three days of driving with a twenty-four hour stop in Denver to spend time with our daughter. The drive was necessary as we would need a car on the farm and it’s the […]

Searching for The Middle Path

This essay was originally published on Medium.com It’s my second winter living in Utah and we’ve received record breaking snow fall. Last year at this time, it felt like there would never be another real winter and as I write this with the calendar about to turn to April, it is snowing with a forecast […]

My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin

I loved this debut. A campus novel where a young woman has an affair with her professor that has ramifications throughout her life. Isabel, the protagonist is not a perfect girl. She is sympathetic, yes, but makes some bad choices and behaves in ways she regrets. How refreshing to read about a young woman with […]