Stories from the Farm

Changes Afoot…

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. […]

Talk Turkey. Go Regenerative!

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! […]

Summer Farm Views

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

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 […]

Spring Spreads at the Farm Wednesday

June 2nd we will re-open the farm for shoppers & visitors, Wednesdays from 3-7 pm.* On any given day there is no telling what you might see, touch or taste here but this summer we are going to re-open to visitors on Wednesday late afternoons so you can whiff, watch, walk, wonder, wax, –even worship […]

Welcome Back Wednesdays 3-7!

June 2nd we will re-open the farm for shoppers & visitors, Wednesdays from 3-7 pm.* As we write to welcome you (back) to the farm, the pond full of peepers pierce through closed windows on this chilly night. Prior to this afternoon’s thunderstorm the air was heavy with the spicy, sweet and flowery fragrance of […]

#FarmHer Brings Us Together This Weekend!

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 […]

Wintering

“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!

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 […]

Seasonal Transitions

Whereas nature is dancing toward the quiet tones of late fall and winter, our hoop houses harbor stockpile of greens to keep all our plates full of fresh green vibrancy. And our various storage systems enable us to tuck in the full color spectrum (marinara, pumpkins, squash, tomatillo sauce, pickles, currants, elderberries), squirreling it away […]