“Culvert by culvert and ditch by ditch. We’re going to make this pasture rich With cover crop planting and livestock grazing Turning all into fertile ground.” I’m convinced that the goodness in this world grows from the goodness in the Earth and nothing quite embodies this like good green grass. When we first bought our […]
With Winter on it’s way, we really hoped to be along a lot farther than we are on the farm. Things take time, I know. One thing we don’t want to do is create false expectations in the community. We look forward to joining the ranks of other farms in the area. We delight in […]
Another exciting month at the farm! The 10+ inches of rain we had in June raised the water table exposing the wet, soggy patches that were well-hidden during the drought of May. It’s always good to know where we’ll need drainage in the future. I desperately wanted to get our hay cut, but unfortunately with […]
With new work at Cornell and other side efforts, like entering a home brewing contest, it seems like not that much has happened on the farm in the past several weeks since we moved here full-time. Although we are impatiently awaiting our first round of baking bread or milking cows, there is a lot of […]
With Spring in the air and the Sun shining bright, we got to spend some quality time recently on the Boquet River which borders the farm. With most vegetation still laying down from the heavy snow, we could see little green buds starting to grow here and there as they poked through the old growth. […]
Kimmy and I have had several awesome experiences as guests traveling abroad and working on farms in exchange for room and board. We made chevre in Brittany (that’s the photo you see above) and tended Icelandic sheep in Copenhagen. We used organizations like WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms) and we had good success […]