As all who have been shopping at the farm this harvest season already know from our GrazeCart updates, after 12 years of year-round shopping (and a decade of the farmstand being open every day of the year, then these months of COVID pivots to an online farmstand), we are going to close for the winter. […]
Stories from the Farm
Go Regenerative!
August 10, 2021 – 4:10 pm
Was it an echo from the barnyard? Yesterday we walked the turkeys… (not to Boston!) to the paddock adjacent to the barn… No, these turkeys appeared to be the wake-up committee, scattered about the barnyard & entire hill pasture, vocalizing awfully close to bedroom windows of our farmhouse, the barn guesthouse and Laura’s folks home! […]
By Laura
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Tagged ecosystem services, regenerative farming, turkeys, VESP
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Summer Farm Views
July 27, 2021 – 2:29 pm
Summer is in full swing….. And with the recent rain, it seems the farmers and the plants & animals are breathing a little sigh of relief (and growing!). The growing season is that crazy time where there never seems to be enough hours in the day, but the lushness of our fields & forests is […]
Sweet Peas & Piglets
June 22, 2021 – 8:27 pm
Come enjoy sweet snap peas as well as meeting sweet pea, the spotted tiny piglet and his littermates! What a combo! Celebrate Summer & Solstice with Wednesdays on the Farm: This week Peas & Piglets, feasts for so many senses! Our last litters of piglets were due June 19/20 to some new gilts becoming sows […]
#FarmHer Brings Us Together This Weekend!
April 1, 2021 – 8:07 pm
In COVID times we can’t welcome farm visitors our normal way. However, thanks to Marji and the RFDTV FarmHer team, we can all immerse ourselves in a farm visit this weekend. Tune in (or record to watch later) this weekend. Our FarmHer episode (#16) airs Friday April 2nd and/or Sunday, April 4th at 9:30 pm […]
By Laura
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Tagged agritourism, FarmHer, farmstay, media, virtual tour
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Wintering
March 22, 2021 – 9:41 pm
“Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.” ― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times In our first 9 years we only missed a handful of weekly updates. […]
Welcome Dosa!
November 15, 2020 – 5:58 pm
As we approach Thanksgiving, we offer gratitude far and wide to all who enable this small farm to keep producing. This year, as we look towards the traditional Thanksgiving centerpiece of a Turkey, we welcome to the farm their new protector. Two years ago, when we hosted members of the Tri-State area’s R.A.T.S group, they […]
Virtual Farm Tour
August 9, 2020 – 2:16 pm
In collaboration with the Slow Living Summit, we are hosting a LIVE Webinar Farm Tour during Vermont’s Open Farm Week. Join us as we walk the farm, make chard fritters, visit pigs on pasture, move the turkeys across the farm and take your questions. REGISTER #KnowYourFoodKnowYourFarmer Last year, we were thrilled to host Governor Scott […]
By Laura
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Walking the Turkeys
July 23, 2020 – 7:54 am
Fortunately, we don’t have to walk them to Boston in the Fall, like they did once upon a time from Vermont. We just walk them from one part of the pasture to another. This past weekend, they paraded a bit further than usual to get to some lovely eating and good shade! Enjoy this up […]
Stronger Together
April 27, 2020 – 12:45 pm
The work of staying healthy in community Food crops get viruses also, as well as bacterial and fungal infections. Often insect pressures on plants piggy back on such stressors, along with nutritional imbalances. Chemical agriculture attempts to cheat these forces with fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Their positive impacts are short lived and myriad negative […]