Over the past few weeks, we have been selling eggs from our wonderful chickens to the community around our farm. We’ve used several outlets, including selling at a local CSA pickup location, our local farmer’s market, our own CSA subscription program, a few dozen to our fabulous local farm-to-table restaurant, the Hil, most recently at [...]
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I promise, there will be fresh posts this week. In the meantime, however, I want you all to know that we are planning Farm Workday No. 3 for Sunday, July 25th from 9am until… Items on the agenda include: finishing cleaning the barns, clearing debris from pastures, [...]
Weighing in at a miniscule 3/4 of an ounce and measuring a grand total on an inch and a half, we have our very first egg! Time to instal the nest boxes! Woohoo! (and yes, that is indeed a blue egg)
Franklin and Gemma eagerly greet us at the gate to the sheep pasture. HUGE snapping turtle I spotted in the creek as I was walking over the bridge. Ross getting the tractor warmed up before moving the chickens.
So, as indicated by the previous post, we have our sheep. At last. They are wonderful, peaceful animals… nervous, but peaceful. Here is the riviting tale: We awoke at 5:00am to have some breakfast and collect Frankie who was going in for a neuter while we were going to be away from the farm. We [...]
I’m getting ready to hit the bed after an exhausting three day journey to Virginia and back to get our sheep. We have them. They are wonderful. I am so, desperately excited. I’ll post the complete tale later this week. But I want you to know, we have sheep.
When most of us think of Swiss cheese we think of creamy, holey slices on our ham sandwiches. The truth is, Swiss cheeses are as diverse as cheeses anywhere else, coming in all shapes, sizes, forms, and textures. Most common are the traditional Alpine varieties that come in gigantic wheels of sweet, nutty, calcium-rich, deliciousness [...]
I’m writing this from my kitchen counter on a rainy (again) afternoon feeling the restless tension of a Spring that is coming, but has not yet come. Daffodils are pushing up, the grass is growing; I walk the pastures and see lush, vivid patches of clover just waiting to be munched by our sheep; our [...]
