by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
We’re so glad that our neighbor has a peacock, and we’re so glad that her peacock likes to strut through the Homestead lawns! These creatures are a remarkable example of Magnalia Dei: the glory of God revealed in the things that He has made. Only males are actually...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
One of the (few) things we like about the co-ooold is the nightly Snuggle Fests with the sheep in the barn. They almost all want to cuddle. And their expressions, when they hear a shepherd’s voice! My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me....
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
That’s an expression I heard often from generations before me. We’ve been using it around here of late, in jest, because the Homestead now has a Jersey Cow named Rosie. She looks like she should be named Rosie, maybe even “Miss Rosie Meek and Mild.” To make the story...
by MAGNALIA | CAT, PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
Cato, the Roman legend who inspired our founding fathers in the quest toward liberty, wrote a famous treatise on farming and agriculture for his fellow countrymen. Among other jewels, he makes the statement that the good farm steward… …should have the...
by MAGNALIA | PLACES, PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
Signs of Easter are everywhere! Resurrection glory: things dying to bring new life. The Dutch tulips were my favorite sight here, until we realized that the farm’s new Bluebird Trail has already attracted tenants! Magnalia Dei was a puritan expression used to...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
So this just happened at Magnalia Farm today: our first ewe lamb, and our first calf (endowed with a bull’s paraphernalia), were born within hours of each other! Each time a birth happens, it’s a stunning, impossible (scary!) and wonderful adventure,...
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