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Reflections on 10 years

Ten years ago a massive hail storm arrived just after we had completed the harvest for the first week of our CSA share pick up. Prospects for week two of our year-round, full diet, free choice farmshare were in peril. But neighbors helped us rake inches of hail accumulation away from tender plants and Chip […]

Holiday Markets & Festivities

Thanksgiving is coming and it is snowing like it means it here at the farm. That must mean it is time for a variety of holiday markets and festivities.  While you are planning your holiday shopping and outings here are some to consider and where you can find our pasture-raised meats and organically managed veggies, […]

Join us for Open Farm Week

  Of course, our farmstand is open every day of every week, so no need to WAIT until Open Farm Week, but there are a few special offers from our farm and our partners that week, August 16-20.   Thursday, August 17th we are hosting Scarecrow Making & Farm Tours The Farm Tour will include pigs and […]

Inspiration!

Good. Clean. Fair.               Slow Food Vermont  boils what is important down to these simple words. And when they teamed up with Humaneitarian.org to host a “Heritage Breed Supper” at Half Pint Farm at the Intervale, that sounded like an event we wanted to be a part of.  The […]

Celebrating Community & the Floating Bridge

The Floating Bridge is a notable landmark and a special gathering spot.  So special that it is the namesake for our cooperative of local businesses that offer people the opportunity to experience small farm living, locally raised farm products, and the seasonal beauty of Central Vermont’s working agricultural landscape, the Floating Bridge Food & Farms Cooperative. […]

Music to our Ears

If the earnest team working on Vermont’s Farm to Plate were shooting a video add for buying local veggies they couldn’t have gotten away with it.  If our grandmothers overheard us, they would be pleased as punch. Even as I sit here I’m thinking – did that really happen? Did two teenage boy neighbors ask […]

March (kidding) Madness

Welcome to March and all of its madness. This year for some it may be the madness that can come at the not-quite-end of a long, cold, snowy winter.  For others it is all about basketball.  For us, and others like Fat Toad Farm, it is all about kidding or lambing madness. For colleagues…sugaring! Ours […]

Food, Farms & Community

Close your eyes and remember a matriarch or provider in your family. Can you see the proud and satiated smile of someone who has provided a feast for their loved ones? Sharing the farm has created some of that satisfaction this week as the Williams College Winter Study class piled out of the van, and […]

Frost & Frenzy

That is how the past week has felt around here….frosty and frenzied and they are not unrelated.  Between being the host site for some great on-farm events, including a favorite farm share member’s 60th birthday party and Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund’s retreat, we packed a slice of the farm off to the Boston Local Food […]

Head over Heels

Last Sunday morning started on some grim notes. Weasel struck again and we found ourselves composting headless chickens. Current score = weasel(s) 30, farmers nil. But moments later one of the young pigs plopped into the water bin trying to cool off. The bin was on a sloping landscape and with its squirming to maintain […]