National CSA Day celebrated last week how important the Community Supported Agriculture model is for many farms, ours included. Our farmstand and retail shoppers are important. Our committed year-round members are real, live symbiotes! (check out our Free-Choice Farmshares) It turns out the relationships we cultivate within our human farm community mimic the relational magic of our […]
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Sharing the Love
February 12, 2019 – 5:40 pm
Love, the word of the week given Valentines Day is approaching. Love figures prominently and broadly around here. Truly it is a bit foundational to why we do what we do, why we farm how we farm. Our love for great, healthy, clean food Our love for the natural environment Our love for the livestock […]
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Bone Broth Love
January 31, 2019 – 10:50 am
We embraced the joy and benefits of good bone broth several years ago. Through a combination of experiences of our members seeking their own healing through bone broth; Sally Fallon; the bone broth craze hitting urban areas, Brodo and our own hearty volume of bones, we worked with our friend and colleague Chef Lee to […]
Winter Whites
January 17, 2019 – 2:40 pm
So, the color palette here in the winter is not broad. So many winter whites. But there is something gorgeous, calming (yes, the messes and projects are buried) and interesting in the simple colors. A few of our white views this week….
Happy New Year…2019!?!
January 3, 2019 – 10:40 am
Warm greetings from the farm to all for a new year full of delicious, healthy food…preferably local too! At this time of year, many of us are using the turn of calendar for a fresh start, new resolutions, changing habits. A friend encouraged us to have our resolutions be more or less of _____ as […]
Stuff your Stockings with Heirlooms….and organics!
December 20, 2018 – 6:53 am
Like all of you, we have been busy as elves (or farmers I guess) tending to the lovely greens in the hoophouse, transforming some of the growing season’s bounty into delightful treats for the holiday season and stocking the farmstand with items to make your cooking easier & local. We packed up a lot for the […]
SnowVember
November 29, 2018 – 10:07 am
Ok…we haven’t taken accurate measurements, but we do obsess about the weather. Rough count was 23″ fallen since November 9th BEFORE this week’s storm….which had almost 8 (measured) inches Tuesday morning, plus all the rest that came. Wow, we used to describe ourselves as snow-starved before we moved back to Vermont. Check, solved that yearning! […]
Always Busy…
November 14, 2018 – 1:19 pm
Or you could call it Mid-November chaos. First, breeding season for the pigs arrived. After a long summer vacation of grazing, fence edge clearing and lounging, the boys, Balto & Rin Tin Tin, were put back to work. Fortunately, all the moving of pigs around the property happened before the snow came, though they don’t […]
Thank You R.A.T.S.
November 1, 2018 – 8:24 pm
“R.A.T.S. is in!! Let’s roll.” Laura finished reading the email from her phone at farmer lunch. It’s opening line “The human and canine members of R.A.T.S. hereby accept your wonderful invitation to visit Vermont” along with the subsequent promise to bring “dogs, our patented rat smoker, and a truck load of enthusiasm” had prompted gut-felt […]
#RootedinVermont
October 18, 2018 – 9:15 am
It is fall and while I love root vegetables all year round, the colder temps make them both more appealing to cook, and of course they are seasonally appropriate as they will last. Just a little appreciation here for the roots — by us and the pigs too. The pigs do love their roots […]