Solace Farm

06/19/2026

06/19/2026

Wet Nose Wednesday - Daily feeding of LGDs in the field rewards dogs for staying with their livestock and allows regular health checks.

06/19/2026

Thirty years with my hands in the dirt, and you start to think you've seen every trick in the book. But a few years ago, a friend handed me a stray seedling of a plant with a completely misleading name. I popped it in the ground, mostly to be polite, and let it get on with things. What happened over the next few months genuinely surprised me. Not only did it throw up gorgeous blooms for three solid months with exactly zero fuss from me, but I noticed something else. The local deer and rabbits utterly refused to go near it. In fact, they wouldn't even touch the vulnerable plants growing immediately next to it. It belongs to the same family as mint, but unlike mint, it has the good grace to stay exactly where you put it without staging a garden-wide takeover. No powdery mildew. No endless watering once established. Just an absolute workhorse that pulls its weight and quietly protects its neighbors. I finally laid out exactly what this misnamed wonder is, why it works so well, and why it's the one perennial I now politely insist folks plant.

06/19/2026

The story ends with two books open. The Book of Deeds is the whole tally — every single thing you ever did, good and bad. If that's the book you're judged out of, friend, none of us rides out clean.

But here's the order it happens in: before they ever read your deeds, they check the other book first — the Book of Life. And if your name's written there, they tear out every page that lists what you did wrong. Don't even read 'em. You get judged clean, on account of Whose you are.

You don't want to stand on your record. You want your name in the other book. The good news of the whole finale: it can be. 🤠

06/19/2026

06/19/2026

I no longer dream of luxury. I just want chickens, fruit trees, silence, and zero notifications after 7 PM.

06/19/2026