Stories from the Farm

Eating Close to Home

Jack set the table “for the feast” with gusto. Martha Stewart would have frowned on his innovation – taping our name cards (6-year-old’s authentic font in pencil on index cards) to our napkins. Just such quintessential moments are what the Google gods were tapping with the turkey doodle.  Did you see it? What a fascinating interactive! […]

Tastings, Cooking Tips & Holiday Open House

December 11th 10:30 – 3pm Join Cookbook Author Diane Imrie for a cooking demonstration, tasting and conversation about Cooking Close to Home for the holidays and throughout the seasons. Diane will be cooking, sampling dishes and signing cookbooks from 11am – 2 pm on Sunday, December 11th.  Drop by anytime or soak it all in. Nationally renowned […]

Glory and Gratitude

Passion, artistic focus and a whole lot of equipment came to the farm with the 3 NYU film students, their 3 child actors and crew Saturday.  “Green House” will be a web short to help teach kids about sustainable, local farming and we were glad to be part of the blended documentary and scripted film.  […]

Blown Away

“Blown away”! And this time it wasn’t the wind. It was the refrain – sometimes punctuated with tears, from folks attending the Music for Farms concert. Almost one quarter of the roughly 60 attendees were under 12. We are thrilled that farm members and friends Mary Bonhang and Evan Premo and their Scrag Mountain Music […]

Winter Pantry is Now Open

This week we open the winter pantry. Periodically we have reported on the various items that have been canned, frozen or dried for your eating pleasure this winter. Now the time has come for you to start enjoying them. One of our farm’s missions is to encourage local eating by providing tasty, healthy and sustainably […]

Pigs on the Move

Help us welcome back our biggest Green Mountain Boy! Gellert is back from his “work” at Amee Farm and today he met his piglets. Our trip over the rivers and through the woods to pick Gellert up in Pittsfield reminded us of the brutality of Irene. Looking at Gellert reminds us that he too is […]

Cooking Classes

Check out the upcoming cooking classes. Consider how you might treat yourself and great gifts for the holiday season.

Molting

Who remembers that cheery traditional song “They’re laying eggs now…? How did it go? … “Just like they used to…”? Regardless of lyrics or tune, soon it will be true around here too. The hens are well into their molting and eggs are in very short supply. In all birds molting is the periodic replacement of feathers by shedding […]

Timminoggies

Timmynoggy: [Tim-i-nog-gee] noun:  a device that saves time and labor. This week the farmers considered some Timinoggies     Thanks to the artful fun from Liva inspired as a birthday gift for Mari.                                 

Enjoying Fall’s Beauty

Along with the rest of Vermont, we have been enjoying fall in all its glory this week both on our farm and others.  It has been joyous to watch the littlest pigs really start to play and explore running up and down the hill, around the rock, following our sows and starting to adventure on […]