Last summer we widened our driveway by two feet. This spring we added as much drainage as possible given all of the trees in close proximity. While it now sheds water and handles all of the heavy truck traffic we receive, anyone who has driven on it recently knows it can be a bumpy ride with potholes forming and larger stones being kicked up. Yesterday we topped it with four triaxel loads of 2B gray limestone! It’s a dream to drive on right now. With a wider and more solid foundation combined with better drainage this should last a lot longer than our previous band-aids. Limestone is much harder than sandstone so the surface should not disintegrate under pressure. We’ve been using it next to the farmhouse for six years and that part is still in great shape. Hopefully this is our last driveway post for a while!

We have been included in Amazon’s Prime Day promotion to celebrate small businesses! Although we normally prefer to have our customers order directly from our website (what small business wouldn’t?), we wanted to share this opportunity with you.

• Prime members in the US earn a $10 credit to use on Prime Day when they spend $10 or more on select small-business products from June 7, 2021, to June 20, 2021
• Amazon Prime Store cardholders in the US earn up to 10% back on purchases of select small-business products from June 7 to June 20

Check out which of our products are included in the promotion HERE.

Living on a maple farm means living in the country. We have several Amish neighbors and if you don’t already know – they are the best people to get strawberries from. Fresh, juicy, and flavorful!

We decided to use some of the strawberries we bought to make strawberry shortcake last night. Of course, instead of adding regular sugar, we opted for Nova maple sugar!

These are really easy to whip up quickly using Pillsbury dough (we used Grands, but you could use crescent rolls) and cool whip.

As you can see, our 3-year-old was patiently waiting to chow down after we finished taking a quick picture!