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Author Archives: rebecca
it’s supposed to be hard
For the past two years, the second weekend in March we have attended the annual Georgia Organics Conference. We’ve loved going to this conference for the inspiration, camaraderie, and learning opportunities that are typically abundant, but this year we didn’t go. This year, instead of buckets of inspiration, we spent the weekend at the University of Georgia [...]
Shear Madness!
I know, I know, that pun has so been done, but I had to. We spent all of yesterday shearing our 30 wooly sheep (the rest are Katadhins, which are hair sheep, and so they shed). On the referral of our friend Robin who works at the Atlanta zoo, we hired Randy Pinson, pretty much the last and [...]
Internal and External
Winter on a farm is an amazing time. Things are quiet. Everything feels internal. There is mystery, and with the mystery, a touch of anxiety, a shade of wondering if all that is unseen right now will become seen, all we hope for will be confirmed. Most pressing of these anxieties for me has been the question: [...]
A Brief Meditation on Gratitude on Thanksgiving Morning
We here at Manyfold have so very, very much to be grateful for: we’ve lived through our first year of farming on our own, our ewes are happy and healthy, our chickens are productive and funny as can be, I could sit down with our three dogs and have a whole conversation with them about [...]
Press Clippings
I’m so thrilled! Apparently, a writer for the Atlanta Creative Loafing nabbed some of our eggs and decided to write about them. Glowingly. All I’ve got to say is that it’s not us, it’s the chickens. If you let these birds be themselves, then that’s all you need to make a good egg. If you’re in [...]
What We’ve Been Up To
After the past few more intelectual/political posts I thought it was high time for just a plain old update as to what in the world we have been up to over the past few weeks. Here’s a quick run-down: Haying. Making hay came late this year, so we only took one cut from two of [...]
A Guide to Electing Your New Agricultural Commissioner
(Editor’s Note: while I’m not typically known for wearing my politics on my sleeve, I felt the need to offer some of my impressions of the GA Agricultural Commissioner candidates; it’s an under-sung office up for grabs in the ever-under-sung mid-term election cycle that is pretty important for farmers of all shapes and sizes. It is my hope [...]
Wanna help GROW the movement?
Hey, got $5 for local food? Our friends Owen and Christine are making a film about young farmers in the sustainable food movement (including us here at Manyfold– they did the footage of the sheep wrangling below!). The purpose of the film is to help raise awareness about the movement and the importance of sustainable [...]
sheep wrangling
Owen and Christine of Anthony-Masterson photography are an amazing couple who volunteer their skills to benefit the movement towards sustainable farming in Georgia. They’ve been out to the farm a couple of times now, and most recently, got some awesome footage of Ross wrangling our sheep for hoof-trimming. As we don’t yet have a proper [...]
