Elderslie Farm Blog

A Creamery Door
A door is what stands between two worlds separating them and uniting them. Practically a great invention, symbolically also a rich one. I learned long

Mangle Board
My wife is more talented than I am. I have a plodding methodical creativity and work ethic that has served me well through periods of

Not Done
Two weeks ago I was in a gas station in Lincoln County Kansas after two days walking in pursuit of birds along the vast expanse

Dining Room With Snow, Please
This morning at 6:50 my children lost their minds. They went running out the door in their pajamas with no shoes screaming “snow, snow, snow,

Walling
I am a son of Adam Smith. I was taught that endeavor is motivated by self-interest and justified by profit. But as I have grown

Creating Local
Some days I wonder if creativity is worth the bother. The creation of a thing unique and planned from idea and brought out of the