Category: Country Life

It’s quiet time at the farm. The gardens are put to bed and fallen leaves are blanketing the landscape. The last hardy vegetables are about to leave the farm stand as we’ve had a couple of nights of hard frost … Continue Reading →

It’s fall on the farm, which means the sheep are regrowing their wooly coats after their summer shearing, the chickens are fluffing up, and leaves are falling. Farmer Steve calibrated his muzzle-loader musket yesterday in preparation for deer hunting season … Continue Reading →

April did not disappoint this year in the showers department. I was driving to the grocery store one morning during week 3, listening to the radio, and the weather forecast was “rain today, rain tomorrow, and so on…” Now let … Continue Reading →

In the spirit of the 12 Days of Christmas, here are 12 ways to use a tractor. We have two orange Kubotas on the farm campus (sorry John Deere), and they’re used a lot. Fittingly, the first way to use … Continue Reading →

We thought that the rain and wind storm this week would take down the fall foliage, but this is the sight we awoke to this morning. Oh, my. All around the farm the transition to colder days is underway. Take … Continue Reading →

Ah, summer! The farm gardens are at their peak and the stand is loaded with beautiful produce. I even picked up corn today — the bears didn’t get it this year! But as we enjoy swimming and boating with the … Continue Reading →

We’ve been riding the climate change roller coaster as winter haltingly gives way to spring. After a day in the fifties last week that left our dirt roads scarred with muddy ruts, the temperatures plummeted and we were blanketed with … Continue Reading →

While the Mid-Atlantic States are being pummeled by winter storms, we here in Northern New England are waiting patiently for a decent dump of snow. (Okay, not so patiently — whaaaa!) We got about 6 inches of snow in December, … Continue Reading →