Old Time, Celtic, Maritime Music, Gardening and Small Scale Farming

I didn't know I was a musician gardener.
All my life I've loved getting my hands dirty gardening, keeping small livestock, and playing traditional music, but I always thought that was just a peculiar combination that occurs in a completely random fashion. But one day my wife Sara and I were talking with a neighbor who ran a one acre educational garden down the street from us. He mentioned that as soon as the growing season was over he was going to hit the road with a bluegrass band he played with. He smiled and said that he felt really blessed to live the life he had- getting to play in the dirt and play on the stage. I had no idea he played in a bluegrass band so we talked shop about music, gardening, and travelling for a bit. After we said goodbye and started walking away Sara turned to me and said "oh I know what you guys are, you're Musician Gardeners."
Suddenly it clicked, all my life I've known and met people who combine their lives like that. friends, neighbors and other folks who combine their love of the land with a love of music, often the very music that grew and still grows out of that land.
This blog hopes to explore that relationship and to let other Musician Gardeners out there know that we're actually a demographic!

Friday, December 30, 2011

Well, the end of an era has come.  My dear friends Xander and Melissa just closed today on the purchase of my strawbale house and 18 acres just outside of ashland wisconsin.  I'm so happy to see it go to such caring community minded people, who are also musician gardeners to boot.  Xander used to be the mandolin wrangler for the band "Strawbale Stomp," if any of you northskys remember that.
So here's to Xander and Melissa, and all my old and dear friends in northern wisconsin, seems like only yesterday I was playing square dances with the "Red Pine Resonators" or hanging out pressing apples at the cider pressing parties.  Hopefully Sara, June and I will be able to get out and visit soon, I  can't wait to see what my friends accomplish on that old place.
Here's a few pictures of the land and the house, it was quite a journey, and I definitely learned a lot.





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  1. gregDecember 30, 2011 at 3:39 PM

    Hey Greeeeeeeeg. The house looks great! Better than a hot wigwam for sure...

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