Farm Journal

There seems to be a lot of shifts in the restaurant industry these days. Like farming, it is a hard business. I was just remembering a piece I wrote in…

Recently, I found myself looking over pictures from 2018. Dean and I moved onto this land and started Harmony Fields in 2011. Seven years later, we started making cheese. In…

This is a quick, love note to say that we are taking another year off from cheesemaking. Over the past year, we have been updating our facilities and tending to…

Join us for a lively Zoom conversation about Wendell Berry’s landmark book, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, the evening Thursday, October 24th . Counter Point Press writes, “Since its…

Dear Harmony Fields Customers, Happy (almost) Valentine’s Day! We love you and have some news to share that pulls on our heartstrings. After a lot of deliberation, we are taking…

Hello and happy fall! In my opinion, this is the most beautiful time of year in the Skagit Valley! The colors, the morning light, gourds of all shape and size…

Happy Lunar New Year! The first twenty-one days of January have been a total bust for me for various reasons, so I am officially starting 2023 today! According to some…

All summer and fall we have been moving at a rapid clip around here. Between the farm season and my fall book tour for A Little Bit of Land, the…

Hi friends, I know this blog has been neglected this season, but I am here to say it has been for good reason. We’ve been busy milking sheep and making…

The farm is coming back to life. Signs of spring are all around us and I am grateful for this change of season. We are getting into farm-mode, preparing for…