Cumberland Falls Farm

In a few days I will be making a facebook post that reads something like this, “We will be having Thanksgiving at our house, you all are very welcome to come. We’ll eat around 2:00, though you can come earlier and later. Everyone is invited, family, friends, and strangers. No need to RSPV, we’d love…

Raising little children requires you look at the world just a little differently. Maybe that cloud you said is white, isn’t exactly white after all. Perhaps there is something about a giant spider that is “so beautiful”. And don’t ask what color your hair is. You probably don’t want to know. This was highlighted to…

We have just finished bottling our first honey harvest of this year.  It has been an unfortunately poor year for honey production, so this may be the last harvest of the year too. Our honey is raw and unfiltered.  Unprocessed honey has bene praised for it’s plethora of health benefits, but in addition to that…

Living the dream. Five years ago I was a street musician in Seattle playing my cello in the freezing drizzle to get enough money to fly back to Kentucky to see my fiancé, and that’s what an enthusiastic man, in baggy grey sweatpants, filming a documentary on his iphone about street musicians, wanted me to…

Kudzu was supposedly introduced to the south to use as erosion control, a use for which it is certainly well suited. Unfortunately the prolific, highly invasive vine spread and is nearly impossible to control. Now it covers mountainsides, climbing up and smothering whole forests. As much as we would like to get rid of it…

  The day my husband and I met we drove past what, three years later, would be our first proper home. We didn’t know that of course, we didn’t know we’d get married, we didn’t even know we’d ever see each other after that day. So we definitely didn’t think about the old woman living…

It’s time to strip the peas.  This means we pick all the peas off, even the little skinny ones, which will trick the pea plants into thinking they’ve been total failures.  It’s their life goal to grow enough mature seeds to have their offspring return next year and by taking all the peas at once…

“Della, are you up to no good in the shed?” “Yes Mama.”  

  “Ohh…” It’s the sound of poorly concealed shock and awe we sometimes get when I quote our eggs at $3.00/dozen. But here’s the things, we’re not trying to bring you the best price on eggs, we’re trying to bring the best value, and the highest quality. In order to achieve that goal our chickens…