Long live the fig tree
Figs, figs, oh glorious figs.
I feel like figs are another peacock
History
We try to shine a light on our ancestors.
It started with a skunk
This post may contain affiliate links. It doesn’t cost you anything extra but if you use these links to buy something, we may earn a commission. Have you seen our peacock, George? George is a beautiful boy with lovely long tail feathers. In the summer. He’s starting to shed them now and in a few …
Happy Birthday to us!
Our family farm is 190 years old and still growing! We look back on our long history here and are grateful for the generations before us. We have learned from them how to farm, how to run a business, and not to be afraid to try new things. In 1832 Clark and Elizabeth …
Our love affair with farmers markets
We have a long history of going to Farmers Markets, primarily the King Street Farmers Market in Wilmington, Delaware. Generations of Websters, Connells, Talleys, and Rotthouses have loaded produce into wagons or trucks to take to the market 2 or more times each week. John Webster took truckloads of produce in season. A truckload …
Rachel Emma Baker Talley
Have I told you the story of the Thanksgiving turkey that tried to slip away? For much of history, women have been hidden, passed over, and their stories untold. Rachel Emma Baker almost slips past us to the unknown. But what we do know of her story tugs on my heart, and it is a …
The story of Louisa: May we all have a sense of humor and find fun and happiness in life.
In Honor of Women’s History Month: meet Louisa Schulmeister (1839-1912) In my lineage of strong women, I am fortunate to have the German ancestors who uprooted themselves to try for a new life on a new continent. They were smart, talented, capable, and people of good heart. They were, in many respects, ordinary people. They …
Flowers and these Farmers
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden In many ways, I think my family has always seen the farm as a large flower garden. And they have expressed their love of the ground and love of life through flowers. …
Mable Garfield Talley Rotthouse
Although women make up 51% of the world’s population, and 43% of all farm workers, and grow more than half of the world’s food, little is heard of our women farmers. The land passed to the son of the family and the women have been invisible. Today, I am talking about a woman who …
In Honor of the Women in Our History
Mary Pauline Connell Webster So many family stories are told from the father’s point of view. Particularly in farming. In my family, I am fortunate to have a long line of strong women who stood in equal partnership with the men in the family and brought highly valued skills to the family and to the business …
March is Women’s History Month
In Honor of Women’s History Month, I present my grandmother: Rachel Louise Rotthouse Webster Rachel Louise Rotthouse In addition to honoring those women who have changed the world, I think it is important to honor those women who have been so important in our individual lives. I present to you Rachel Louise Rotthouse, who married …
