Alexa Norstad We had a strong suspicion that Alexa belonged on our team when we asked about her relationship to MS excel and she said something suggesting she is in fact “one with excel”. We are excited by her purposeful early mid career switch from corporate New York (Doremus, Condé Nast Publications) and San Francisco […]
Stories from the Farm
Stormy, Stormy Weather
June 1, 2011 – 9:17 am
We are feeling very, very lucky to be high on the hill and while we have been pelted by several of the past week’s storms, we certainly haven’t seen the worst of it and feel very lucky that we haven’t seen any of the hail that keeps showing up in the weather alerts. The animals […]
Status of Your Gardens
May 23, 2011 – 9:25 am
Somewhere around 6am Thursday our phone will ring. It will be Wayne at the Post Office and he will be accompanied by cheeps and chirps. We are ready for the first 50 broilers of the season, a small batch designed to delight you with fresh chicken in approximately 8 weeks. Meanwhile they will spend their […]
Transitioning to Spring
May 11, 2011 – 2:55 pm
Finally, the farm transition has begun in earnest. Bed prep, compost spreading, compost moving, planting, seeding, potting up and training young animals to respect electric fencing. All in a week’s work.
Wet, wet, wet
May 11, 2011 – 2:08 pm
As some of Vermont’s best farmland sits underwater, we are feeling lucky to be tucked high in the hills.
Changes Afoot
April 14, 2011 – 12:49 pm
The snow pack has receded in a blink! Pasture is reappearing. Ice is floating in a thin layer in only the center of the pond. A (the?) killdeer pair circled the farm vocalizing early Sunday morning, perhaps debating if this was the right spot! They were loud as we headed over to milk. The whole […]
Getting Closer as We Grow the Farm
April 6, 2011 – 8:03 pm
Some of our favorite farmers and mentors advise you can’t afford to take a struggling piglet away from a sow for intensive care. We know it is futile to try to care for a piglet if it was not able to get some of the sow’s first milk, the colostrum, with its special antibodies. Our […]
What They Leave Behind
February 18, 2011 – 5:54 pm
It has been a quiet week here at Green Mountain Girls Farm. Statistics from Royal Butcher help us understand why…not only are the 13 “piglets” no longer with us, but they had a bigger presence than we knew. Our “piglets” had grown even bigger than we predicted producing over a ton of pork! Chores are […]
Eat.Stay.Farm
January 23, 2011 – 8:56 pm
Introducing our new logo!We hope our logo will help us extend our invitation to share our farm wider than word of mouth! Soon to follow will be our new website which will allow easier access to what is for sale each week and news from the farm. It will also better express our offers for […]
Happy New Year
January 6, 2011 – 6:23 pm
Happy New Year! We are starting 2011 recommitted to our health – a focus emerging from year end reflections combined with holiday excess! We were lucky to enjoy far-flung family and friends during the holidays but our road-trips make clear how much we have turned into food snobs! Let’s just say we feel lucky to […]