It's a Brand New Year

Walt Whitman left us with this advice on living a vibrant and rewarding life. This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

And NOW.....WINTER! Next up, CHRISTMAS!

Time for snuggling and cuddling up, reading good books and watching "The Crown"! Feasting with family and friends (tamales, posole and biscochitos). Throwing cracked corn to the cranes in the field, and singing Christmas carols together. Oh, and Christmas movies too. Happy Winter!

A Hearty THANK YOU...to our US Military Veterans !

11-11; Veteran's Day, November 11, 2017, 11:00AM, A MOMENT OF SILENCE. WE REMEMBER!

Who Can Believe.....

......how beautiful and LONG this Fall has been???? From Little Bird Farm, we wish you a Beautiful Fall wherever you are!

The Night of the Harvest Moon - Nearing the Garden's End

By this time in the life of the garden, nearly every gardener is DONE! Well, the garden is still going, but the gardener is...pretty much done. It is only the amazing beauty of the almost unbelievable light this time of year that keeps this gardener going! When the sun breaks through at sunrise, this luminous color appears - this fake looking, glorious quality that never ceases to take my breath away. There's not much left out there that hasn't already bloomed and "done its thing", so one must really appreciate every little flower, every tomato, tomatillo or chile. A couple of our apple trees are still loaded with apples that are not quite ready for picking. This and next weekend we will wrap that up. Then we can make our first batch of home grown and home pressed apple cider! Maybe even a jug or two of hard cider! Happy Harvest Moon, everyone!