The Floating Bridge opening and celebration was amazing! As we arrived in Hippo Park, Sandy Schmitt, VTrans Bridge engineer and Brookfield resident was scooting around with a wheel barrow tidying up final bits, green volunteer shirted folks and balloon arches were visible and the air was full of excitement and a good dose […]
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Now That is a Village!
May 27, 2015 – 7:57 pm
By Laura
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Spam, Sperm and feedback loops
February 4, 2015 – 7:48 pm
Seth Godin, a vibrant thinker on marketing, says that if your e-newsletter would not be missed by members of your audience, then it is spam! What do you appreciate about what we share weekly with you from our farm? What would you miss if it went away? What do you want more of? As we […]
By Laura
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Also tagged marketing, sows, sperm
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Moving Parts
June 17, 2014 – 5:34 pm
Celsius and Farenheit, along with mom Amelia moved out to pasture to join the other pigs this week Not only are the animals on the move this week as they always are, but the farmers are too. With Laura and Mari off to a family graduation (of part-time farmer nephew Noah), the rest of the […]
Ramona and the Rains
May 28, 2014 – 5:15 pm
The beauty of piglets came back to us this week. After a changing of the guard in the winter of 2013 and a year of raising three beautiful breeding gilts (young female pigs) from the Whalen’s Green Mountain Heritage Farm in Chelsea, Ramona Quimby was the first to deliver a beautiful litter of piglets. She […]
By Laura
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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 […]
By Laura
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Piglets, Frosts & Friends
October 17, 2012 – 9:17 pm
We’d seen it in the forecasts and sure enough the cold set in. Jonathan Lipkin, photographer, rolled in from New York (a project in gestation phase) at 6:30 Friday morning. He tagged along as we swarmed to pull in anything too tender to freeze. The team ticked off items on the list methodically. 175 pounds of […]
By Laura
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New Faces on the Farm
April 11, 2012 – 12:20 pm
There are many new faces around the farm these days, some of them human, some of them not. Indeed the newest faces are Checkers’ piglets that she delivered late Tuesday night. She wasn’t due until Thursday, but the nest building she embarked upon Tuesday morning clued us in that she wasn’t waiting for the 12th! […]
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 […]
By Laura
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Crescendo!
August 17, 2011 – 7:48 pm
Thanks to many of you who shared photos from the farm supper. We farmers sure had fun and Karen’s blog indicates others did too! We will do it again and hope those who missed it can come next time. And remember, you don’t need to wait for a farm supper to get a latte on […]
By Laura
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Doodle’s Piglets
December 29, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Yes, it may seem as if we are only pig farmers if you read this blog lately. We promise to share other farm stories, but it is true that with 3 sows farrowing in November and December, the pigs are quite prominent. Santa came early and Doodle delivered her piglets on Monday, Dec 21st, right […]