July has swept over the farm and everybody is running around like crazy. We're picking weeds, sowing our last crops, mulching the gardens, preparing for hay (if the weather ever cooperates,
Holy crap I love pickles. I don't care if Portlandia made it funny and fashionable to bash the brine lovers of the world, I wear my pickle pride ... with pride. And
With two incredibly successful batches of chickens under our belt for the season, our freezers are packed to the top with some of the happiest, healthiest, most-carbon-sequestery chickens Vermont has ever
Back in my web programming/marketing/design days, I sat. A lot. Almost all day, in fact. The things that you would expect to happen, happened: I got fat. I got slow. I
For a few years now, Cally and I have been tossing around the idea of bringing sheep here to the farm to compliment the work that the poultry is doing in our pasture
Last year, as one of our early pastured meat experiments, we raised four Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs from Hidden Nest Farm in Argyle, New York. As we strive to provide any animal we
It is March 18th here in Vermont, and while all the bitter dispositions of Vermonters are slowly warming, the temperature outside is decidedly not. It is an 18° Windsday today—the wind is
I don't have much more to add to my previous post on this subject. The real "proof-in-the-pudding" will arrive in the spring with the new grass.
We started raising chickens on grass this year for a reason that I don't hear or read often. We didn't do it for the chicken. We didn't