Garden
š Fall has officially arrived at Spirit Hill Farm! Weāve decked out the property with all our favorite fall decorations, and itās looking extra cozy and festive. From pumpkins to autumn colors, weāre soaking up every bit of this magical season in wine country! šš
Pumpkins, pumpkins and MORE pumpkins! We had quite the fruitful pumpkin harvest at Spirit Hill Farm this year, and now comes the fun partādecorating! The pumpkins are making their way onto the porch and around the farm, adding a little extra fall magic to Spirit Hill Farm. We canāt wait to see them all dressed […]
Thereās nothing quite like a great garden haul!Ā Ā When you stay at Spirit Hill Farm, the garden is yours to enjoy! You can pick fresh fruits, veggies, and herbs right from the property and enjoy them during your stay. One of our recent families told us this was one of their kidsā favorite parts […]
Our very first homegrown artichoke is here š Ā There’s something incredibly rewarding about growing your own food, and harvesting our first artichoke from the garden feels like a little farm victory worth celebrating. Ā One of our favorite parts of life at Spirit Hill Farm is sharing these simple moments with our guests. Every […]
Our garden is amazing right now and the apples are getting ripe too! One of the great parts about renting Spirit Hill Farm is you get to reap (and eat) the benefits of what is growing on the property. We still have a couple of weekends left to rent in August and September. Learn more […]
āThereās something about this place,ā a guest said to me. āItās the energy.ā She took a deep breath and sighed. I smiled. I have heard this before, often. Itās why Iām here. You canāt stay in your tightly-wound-up stressed mind while you are here because Spirit Hill calls to you. It says, Slow down. Be […]
As farmer-in-training at Spirit Hill, I have learned that whatever I plant is as much the birdsā and the animalsāādeer, turkeys, chickens, moles, gophers, birds, insects, for exampleāas it is mine. Growing things at Spirit Hill is a good exercise in non-attachment. Hello, three sunflower plants I bought at Harmony and love so much. Hello, […]
The roses are here! It seems like it happened over night. One day I went to feed the chickens and things were winter bare, and the next day an explosion of color had happened. And I hadnāt heard a peep in the night. Roses must rose very quietly. The thing I love most about the […]
Weāre getting the pool resurfaced in April. Carolyn and Julie picked out the tile for the edge, and the color made me cry. Itās so this placeāitās the kind of blue you feel youāve seen before in your childhood or later as an adult during times when you were very happy or in love or […]
When I wrote āsmall kindnessā as a title I thought, Hmmm, thatās not exactly it. Small is soā¦small. Can something be small and massive at the same time? The acorn comes to mind. And so does the package we, at Spirit Hill, got in the mail. It wasā¦small. And in it was a small card […]