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Summer Farm Views

July 27, 2021 – 2:29 pm

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 […]

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Sweet Peas & Piglets

June 22, 2021 – 8:27 pm

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 […]

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Coming Full Circle

March 28, 2019 – 9:29 am

This is the fifth winter than Hannah of Field Stone Farm has been working with us in the winter.  It has been a great way to explore collaboration, bring in some fresh perspective and extra hands in the winter and offer Hannah, a fab vegetable grower, some experience and time with livestock.  It has seemed […]

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Introducing the Summer Piglets

July 9, 2018 – 6:17 pm

So there are 20 piglets exploring, digging, snoozing, grazing, begging their sows and learning about belly rubs on the farm. Lassie, Toto & Tiggles all delivered piglets within 10 days of each other so we now have one big crew of 20 piglets and their 3 sows. They will be accepting visits from Farmstand shoppers […]

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A Week of Arrivals

June 14, 2018 – 9:53 am

Arrivals has been our theme this week…and the week isn’t out yet! It started with our first load of lovely hay… a nice full trailer on Sunday afternoon.  Always a moment of joy and “Oh, unloading that is now on the to do list?!!”.  Thanks Walt, it is lovely. Followed by the first of three […]

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Introducing the Piglets

March 29, 2018 – 2:05 pm

We are a bit behind on naming and introducing the first batch of piglets that were born at the farm on March 1st.  Fortunately, a young visiting writer & photographer prepared some profiles of each of Grizabella’s six piglets, her first litter. The naming scheme this year is Ski Areas, for this first litter the […]

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In Praise of Tamworths

April 27, 2016 – 11:30 am

We had some snowy arrivals this week. It seems both goats & pigs were waiting until the wintery snow came back to bring their little ones into the world.  Perhaps they are winter lovers, perhaps calming the world was help, perhaps that barometric pressure change…or just luck.  But the birthing has begun, with more to […]

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Dry to Wet

June 10, 2015 – 9:18 pm

The season has turned from too dry to good and wet! The heirloom tomatoes are growing like crazy and have had their first pruning. A large kale harvest has made way for sweet potatoes. The goats are moving through grass quickly and the 24 piglets, still unnamed have taken on that half tank and half […]

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New Arrivals!

June 6, 2013 – 7:40 am

It has been a busy week of arrivals! From Green Mountain Heritage Farm we picked up the newest Green Mountain Girls  –  three piglets that will be our new breeding stock.  They are only 6 weeks old now, cuteas buttons, but will become our future sows!  They are in the upper barn but about to […]

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New Arrivals

September 22, 2011 – 2:41 pm

So many new arrivals this week.  Yes, indeed, piglets have been one of them.  Madison delivered in the wee hours of Friday morning.  While she, and the farmer nurses, have had a rough go of it, she and her 5 piglets are now doing well.  She struggled with her delivery and it had a notable […]

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