The elementary schoolers helped us to finish cutting our seed potatoes today. Because each eye has the ability to grow a new plant, we can grow a number of potato plants from each potato and therefore cut each seed potato into multiple pieces, each of which will be planted twelve inches apart in furrows dug …
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It’s over. As of this afternoon, there are eight lambs, one calf, 150+ chicks, and eight piglets in the barn (or, in the case of the piglets, in the woods). Some highlights: Embracing Intensity My favorite photo from this birthing season features a handful of semester students grouped around a lambing pen. They are …
Though most of Sal’s work is on our farm, she obligingly took a field trip last Wednesday to Damariscotta, 20 minutes up the coast. There, she – with some help from Hilary and me – plowed a garden plot on the Damariscotta River Association‘s Round Top Farm. This garden will be managed by students at Great Salt …
This is a week of transitions on the farm (truth be told, I could say that about any week, given that a farm is a living system and change is the only constant). But, whoa, this is a week of transitions on the farm. On Sunday morning, we sadly and sweetly said goodbye to Semester …
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