by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jan 10, 2024 | About Us, Blog
Gratitude Tortiere & Crossroads Merry Christmas. I’m writing to you today about gratitude, tortiere & crossroads. Manfred and I hope you enjoy the holiday season with a joyful combination of friends, family and quiet solitude. I can’t remember...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 29, 2023 | About Us, Blog
The last day of harvest is bittersweet. Like the native vine with striking orange berries, it is crusty and brilliant all at the same time. Susanne heading to the combine on the last day of harvest. We finished combining corn last Friday afternoon. In the morning,...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Nov 21, 2023 | About Us, About Us, Blog
It took 9 seconds to raise a cupola. I had worried for weeks, months, maybe years. It had taken nine years to arrive at that moment in 2012: the day when the cupola would be placed back on the top of our octagon barn. The Original Cupola The original cupola blew off...
by Susanne Spence Wilkins | Jul 6, 2021 | About Us, Blog, Recipes
It’s hard not to miss our luncheon café at Crazy 8 Barn & Garden. We grew and nurtured that section of our business since we opened the doors of our reconstructed octagon barn in May 2013. It started humbly as a “brown bag café” as we thought most people would...
