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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Summer Farm Views
July 27, 2021 – 2:29 pm
By Laura
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Also tagged agritourism, farmstand, orchard, pasture, summer, turkeys
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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 […]
By Laura
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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 […]
By Laura
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Also tagged birth, circle of life
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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 […]
By Laura
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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 […]
By Laura
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Also tagged chicks, farmstay, poults
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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 […]
By Laura
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Welcome the Environmentalists
May 4, 2016 – 2:41 pm
Our first due date this year for new births was Earth Day, so we thought we should honor that (and our Farm’s strong philosophy) by choosing Environmentalists as the naming scheme for the year. Several inspirational environmentalists, conservationists and ecologists that have made a difference in this world have already been suggested but we need […]
By Laura
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Also tagged environment, goat kids, names
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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 […]
Growing & Ripening
July 8, 2015 – 1:52 pm
While we are happy to not have drought conditions like the western US, all the live beings on the farm have been happy to see a bit more sun this past week. It is July and we are in a season of growing and ripening. And growing is happening. The ridged hoophouse is […]
By Laura
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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 […]