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Open Farm Week & Turkey Orders!

July 31, 2024 – 4:31 pm

Yes, it is the beginning of August and Summer Farm Fresh eating is in Full Swing! August also means…Open Farm Week AND Fresh Turkeys! Turkey Reservations & Workshops It may be August, but it IS TIME to order your pasture-raised TURKEY! Not only time to order it, but time to pick it up fresh. Turkeys […]

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Talk Turkey. Go Regenerative!

August 10, 2021 – 4:10 pm

Was it an echo from the barnyard? Yesterday we walked the turkeys… (not to Boston!) to the paddock adjacent to the barn… No, these turkeys appeared to be the wake-up committee, scattered about the barnyard & entire hill pasture, vocalizing awfully close to bedroom windows of our farmhouse, the barn guesthouse and Laura’s folks home! […]

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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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Welcome Dosa!

November 15, 2020 – 5:58 pm

As we approach Thanksgiving, we offer gratitude far and wide to all who enable this small farm to keep producing. This year, as we look towards the traditional Thanksgiving centerpiece of a Turkey, we welcome to the farm their new protector. Two years ago, when we hosted members of the Tri-State area’s R.A.T.S group, they […]

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Walking the Turkeys

July 23, 2020 – 7:54 am

Fortunately, we don’t have to walk them to Boston in the Fall, like they did once upon a time from Vermont. We just walk them from one part of the pasture to another. This past weekend, they paraded a bit further than usual to get to some lovely eating and good shade! Enjoy this up […]

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Finding What We Need!

August 2, 2018 – 10:08 am

Surprise! The team rushed out to harvest black currants prior to the next round of rain (what a turn-around the last couple of weeks have meant as the dry spell is now a distant memory). From the adjacent towering 3 Sisters garden popped a hen and her clutch of 8 (?) chicks! We had witnessed […]

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Getting Turkeys to Boston…or not

September 12, 2016 – 2:25 pm

Abundant harvests of this warm early fall are bringing glorious orange, reds, yellows and greens to the farmstand, foreshadowing Vermont’s famous foliage! Remembering that vibrancy and intensity of color, like taste, are indicators of nutrient density, we are thrilled not only to offer these delicacies to our community but also to have such spectacular indicators […]

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Summer Grazing

July 28, 2016 – 11:40 am

There are few things more delightful as a livestock farmer than the sweet sounds (which are often very quiet) of animals enjoying new pasture.  Even though it happens every few days on our farm, it still warms my heart every time.   We captured in pictures and video of some of those moments from Sunday morning’s […]

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Turkeys get to Boston One Way or Another!

November 5, 2015 – 8:42 am

Laura looked like the pied piper walking the flock across the clover. Despite Darienne’s  calls of encouragement leaning through the front window, they balked at the trailer. These moments always make me think of Temple Grandin and of conversations years ago with our friend Lisa designing a facility to care for elders with dementia , […]

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Giving Thanks…

November 23, 2014 – 8:59 pm

We love our turkeys. And this year’s group came to us amidst the weasel troubles. We bonded more than normal via extra nightly visits, timed to be there at just the right light to close them all in the horse trailer and early morning releases onto their pasture. As a result they are even more […]

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