We are getting ready for a special weekend for us, the Bedlam Farm Open  House, June 25 and 26, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can share our lives with us, our dogs, donkeys, pony, chickens, sheep, barn cats and with some of the most gifted artists in the region. This year, we are returning to our roots, we are celebrating the art in our lives and the art all around us in rural live.

There will be artists and painters and poets and farriers and shearers (and Joshua Rockwood from West Wind Acres) and Ed Gulley from Bejosh Farm (with a dairy cow) and Maria in her studio with all of her wonderful art and Red and Fate taken turns herding (or   circling sheep). I’ll talk about my work with animals and my next book and will do frequent herding demonstrations.

You can meet Lulu and Fanny and check out Chloe the pony and meet Maria the cow, who will be summering with us. I hope you will also check out some of the wonderful elements of our town, Cambridge, N.Y, the Round House Cafe, the Battenkill Bookstore, the Over The Moon beads and socks shop, Jack’s Outbacks antiques and art. Scott Carrino will be singing in the afternoon.

There are  B&B’s in our town, but Saratoga Springs, Bennington and Manchester, Vt. are all close-by.

You can get more details here. Food is available in town, we will have two portable toilets on hand. This year, for the first time, we put up a poster in front of the farm. The open  houses began as art shows and expanded into other things, perhaps too many. This year we are returning to the roots of it for the June Open House (there will be another Open House on Columbus Day Weekend in October.)

We are happy to celebrate the art of rural life in many of its different forms. It is a part of our life now, and we hope to share our lives with you. Hope to see you in June, I know people are coming from all over the country, that is exciting and humbling.

For me, the Open House is about creativity and the process of opening up. More than anything else, my life is shaped by learning to be more open – to new experience, to love, to ritual and spirituality. Good things, all. Come see us if you can.