Walking the property at Wild Woods Retreat & Farm this week turned up two nests, and neither one is something we built or planned for. Both are just part of what thirty acres of woods, walipini, and pasture produces on its own. The first is a bird's nest, empty by the...
We grow organic garlic at Wild Woods Retreat & Farm, and this bucket is proof of how slowly and steadily that's actually going. What's in it are bulbils: small, seed-like bulbs that form at the top of a garlic scape, the curling flower stalk that hardneck garlic sends...
Every so often a guest asks us for something beyond a place to stay, and this was one of those times. A guest reached out during his stay at Wild Woods Retreat & Farm and told us his plan: he wanted to re-propose to his wife, right there on the property, and he asked...
A few weeks ago we showed you the pavilion going up in the pasture, raw log posts, a shade sail stretched overhead, grass still growing up around the bases. It's finished now, and it turns out the frame wasn't the last thing Zac had planned for it. Across the eight...
Teasel Along the field edges, the teasel has gone to seed: dry, spiky, gold-brown heads on tall stalks, the kind of thing that looks aggressive up close and is, a little (handle carefully). We dry and sell teasel heads through our small Etsy shop, but most of what's...
Wild Woods Retreat & Farm keeps about 30 free-range chickens and, this year, a batch of roughly 10 ducklings, all with the run of the pasture. They're not a guest attraction we built on purpose. They're just part of what makes this a working farm instead of a property...
The creek at Wild Woods Retreat & Farm runs the length of the property. Over time, we've given names to three spots along it: Otter Beach, where the treehouse, fire pit, picnic table, and hammock sit right at the water's edge. Elder Cove, shaded and quieter. And,...
The new pavilion in the pasture at Wild Woods Retreat & Farm is looking good and will be so useful as a gathering space, outdoor classroom, and maybe even a spot for romantic picnic dinners.
