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Shearing Sheep -- Finally!

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Tuesday November 17, 2009   -   By Chris

We finally found someone to shear our sheep.  We'd placed an ad and had several reponses, but people tend to get busy, time slips by, and before you know it the sheep are sporting dreadlocks.  (And not the nice ones like Erica's!) We eventually...

Hurricane Farm Returns to NPR

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Thursday November 12, 2009   -   By Chris

Erica returned to WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio, on Monday, November 9th.  Find the link to a recording of the interview segment here . She was involved in an engaging discussion about the feasibility of eating meat with author Jonathan...

Hurricane Farm visits NPR

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday November 09, 2009   -   By Chris

On Friday, November 6th, my wife Erica was a guest on the Colin McEnroe show on WNPR, Connecticut Public Radio.  She discussed our farm, the farming life, and locally raised meats.  You can find the link to stream a...

Shorter Days and Pumpkins

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Thursday November 05, 2009   -   By Chris

The days are getting shorter.  So much in fact that we had to carve our annual Halloween pumpkins by lamplight at 3:00 in the afternoon!  Overcast conditions coupled with Standard Daylight Time makes for some early evenings. The kids and...

Construction Continues on the Sugar Shack

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Sunday October 25, 2009   -   By Chris

Last weekend we started to put the roof together for our sugar shack.  It will ultimately be an open-walled pole structure to house our maple syrup evaporator.  We'll be able to make much more syrup once we're able to get a roof overhead the whole...

Holiday Meat CSA - Shares Now Available

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Thursday October 08, 2009   -   By Chris

Hurricane Farm in Scotland, CT is currently offering a Holiday Meat CSA.   Many people inquired about and have been on a waitlist for our Summer Meat-Based CSA.  We are now pleased to be able to expand our CSA to a second season...

EXPLORING FRENCH INTENSIVE FARMING (or growing MOR...

Blog: Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Wednesday October 07, 2009   -   By Tony

You do not have to SPEAK FRENCH to qualify for FRENCH FARMING. Simply ,you can start gardening in a SMALL space and still harvest MORE,the intensive way!  The Name French farming came from WW-II as the FRENCH started...

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My 1st Year at Farming!

Blog: Bayview Veggies   -   Tuesday October 06, 2009   -   By Rhonda

Wow . . . almost a year has passed since my first blog entry in December of 2008!  You know, I enjoy reading blogs written by other farmers but I can't for the life of me figure out where they find the time to write! haha. . .   ...

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Green Restaurant Association and Green Seal connec...

Blog: Christopher Ranch   -   Friday October 02, 2009   -   By Justin

      A growing percentage of diners are seeking out restaurants that they perceive as “green,”   but   many have a difficult time locating those restaurants and defining what “green” is.   As a result, the...

Fresh Veggies and a Stuffed Pizza

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Tuesday September 29, 2009   -   By Chris

Here are a few shots of some veggies fresh from the garden.  The frost is still only threatening, so we're sure to have a few more meals on the table right from the garden. A little veg.  A little dip.  Yummy. Once the frost...

California's Critical Water Issues - No Easy Answ...

Blog: Christopher Ranch   -   Monday September 28, 2009   -   By Justin

  There is a contentious water problem raging throughout California’s San Joaquin Valley – an area that produces a major portion of domestic food – that pits environmental protection against domestic agriculture and food supply. ...

Who Loves the Rain

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Sunday September 27, 2009   -   By Chris

Who loves the rain?

Sunflowers, Bees, and Pollen

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Wednesday September 23, 2009   -   By Chris

The sunflowers are still hanging in there, but we're sure to have a frost soon.  It's amazing what you can notice when you take a moment to look closely at the swirling, buzzing, busy workers that surround you on an early Autumn day.  The...

Documentary Shot at Hurricane Farm

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Saturday September 19, 2009   -   By Chris

This past Tuesday an small film crew arrived to shoot footage for an independent documentary at our farm.  They are working on a film about the state of farming here in Connecticut.  This film will be a companion piece to their earlier documentary,...

Fifth Blog from the Sheep Farmer

Blog: Shady Hill Farms, Ltd.   -   Wednesday September 16, 2009   -   By Ben

Folks, this is the Fifth Blog from the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms. We are the supplier of lamb and other products to GreatAmericanLambCompany.com The motto of GreatAmericanLambCompany.com is Better Farming: Better Lamb! And for good...

Local Foods at a Local Restaurant

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Wednesday September 16, 2009   -   By Chris

A local Connecticut restaurant, Zest, has some wonderful dishes on the way prepared with local ingredients including ribs grass-fed, dry aged beef.  If you are in Northeastern CT, stop by their 1750's farmhouse restaurant and try the taste and flavor...

Second Blog from the Sheep Farmer

Blog: Shady Hill Farms, Ltd.   -   Friday September 11, 2009   -   By Ben

This is the second blog from the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms. We sell our premium lamb and related products (sheep skins, heirloom quality 100% virgin wool blankets) through GreatAmericanLambCompany.com, so check them out there. We had a great...

Goat World

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Friday September 04, 2009   -   By Chris

Sarah, our Toggenburg milk goat, is hopefully an expectant mother. That being the case, it was time to build her a place of her own.  She was living with the sheep, able to come and go in and out of the pasture on the schedule of the cattle, but we...

EXPLORING FRENCH INTENSIVE FARMING (or growing MOR...

Blog: Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Friday September 04, 2009   -   By Tony

You do not have to SPEAK FRENCH to qualify for FRENCH FARMING. Simply ,you can start gardening in a SMALL space and still harvest MORE,the intensive way!  VOILA!!! The French started this intensive way of gardening...

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