Month: May 2017

A Farmer’s Reflections on the Birthing Season

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 …

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Mashed, Baked, French Fried: Looking forward to a Potato-Heavy Season

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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