Andrew started his Monday morning by revving up the 29 horses! He and the orange Kubota circled out to various fields with various implements, clipping the grasses and weeds on the edge of gardens… all have kept fast growth through August, coaxed on by nice rains and plenty of sunshine. Later it was the potato […]
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August=Busy!
August 28, 2014 – 6:52 am
Harvesting Picking Digging Washing Prepping Canning Drying Blanching Freezing Weeding Seeding More Weeding Picking Pests Feeding Watering Milking Closing in Poultry Opening up Poultry Picking Fence Setting Fence Moving Animals Touring Cleaning Documenting Eating…alot and Sleeping, hard! That is what our August farmers days are like….. It creates tired farmers and LOTS of great […]
Abundance
August 20, 2014 – 2:11 pm
August in Vermont is definitely about abundance on a farm, no doubt. So much so that the abundance sometimes becomes overwhelming…how do we find enough time to harvest, freeze, can, cook, eat and otherwise hold onto this amazing produce flooding in from our fields..without falling over from exhaustion. But when you do slow down long […]
Write Love Letters – To Farms
August 13, 2014 – 3:58 pm
Last week Laura’s brother’s family visited some of the Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, only 780 are estimated left in the world. When Noah left our farm on his way toward this adventure Mari asked him to pass on a message from her – “our species is off track in some ways, please hang in there, […]
Head over Heels
August 7, 2014 – 8:18 am
Last Sunday morning started on some grim notes. Weasel struck again and we found ourselves composting headless chickens. Current score = weasel(s) 30, farmers nil. But moments later one of the young pigs plopped into the water bin trying to cool off. The bin was on a sloping landscape and with its squirming to maintain […]
Purposeful Color
July 30, 2014 – 7:35 pm
Walk past the gardens this Thursday evening and you will see a good bit of color dotted around the farm. It is pleasing to the eye and that matters! But there is greater purpose to each flower you see. Some repel pests […]
Summer Farm Dinner & Pig Dreams: A Concert
July 25, 2014 – 10:46 am
Join us for a Summer Farm Dinner & Piggy Dreams: A Scrag Mountain Music Concert Wednesday, Aug 6th Farm Dinner: 5-6:30 pm, Concert at 7 pm Prior to the concert, we will be serving a love filled, farm fresh dinner, inspired by the Pig Dreams Theme, of course. The meal will be centered around […]
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Weasel Understands Loving What is Plentiful
July 23, 2014 – 9:13 pm
“This could be our revolution,” writes Alice Walker, “to love what is plentiful as much as what is scarce.” Walker’s poem We Alone could be useful in light of the fact that due to vacillating temperatures and other factors three successions of head lettuce plantings have matured at the same time! We’ve been grating and […]
Pick a Picnic!
July 16, 2014 – 6:23 pm
Do you remember a favorite picnic? Was it a date? Or with elders? On your way someplace or a destination in itself? Outdoor concerts have done their part to make sure picnics don’t become a lost art. But let’s face it, some of the same tugs and pushes of modern life that trend us away […]
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July Classes at the Farm
July 10, 2014 – 10:10 am
Summer greens and veggies are abundant, and we have fresh Chicken this week at the farmstand. Additionally, as part of the Floating Bridge Food and Farms Cooperative we are excited to invite you to dig into a slice of Vermont life with our series of workshops, classes, and authentic experiences on Vermont Farms. The next two events in […]
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