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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wednesday October 14, 2009 - By Chris
The frost has hit and the squash is done. Sadness creeps into the picture as one looks around at the dying plants. The sqash was commanding the garden mere days ago, but its leaves are now turning a sickly dark color. The frost sneaks in...
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Tuesday October 13, 2009 - By Chris
It is come upon the end of the season for our borrowed field down the road. The cattle did a wonderful job clearing out the overgrown field and we have high hopes for superior hay next season. I'll be brush-hogging the remaining saplings and...
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Sunday October 04, 2009 - By Megan
This is our second week at the new Sunday Farmers Market in Downtown Fallbrook. It's a new market and the folks there are Great! The Market Coordinator is an amazing lady and the vendors are the best! We all help each other! What a concept! If I want a dipping...
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Sunday September 27, 2009 - By Chris
Who loves the rain?
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Sunday September 13, 2009 - By Megan
Last nite was the Green Feast in San Juan Capistrano, it was a benefit to raise funds for The Ecology Center. What a Place! The vision these folks have is Amazing! Check out their website and you'll get an idea of what they are all about. It was a real honor...
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Monday August 31, 2009 - By Kay
While finalizing details for our upcoming fundraiser/music festival, we were invited to visit one of the farms serving as a "farm education station" during the event: Vollmer Farm in Bunn NC. Vollmer is coming to the festival to educate...
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Saturday August 29, 2009 - By Chris
This is our second late summer here at our farm and just about now it seems we have an annual invasion! First, at night one begins to hear chirping. It begins low, and then builds to a piercing crescendo as the twilight gives way to the summer...
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Saturday August 01, 2009 - By Chris
My Dad came down to lend a hand at the multitude of tasks that I had lined up for the weekend and three things were discovered:
1. Pliers should be added to the "must have" list of farm tools.
2. Cutting and chopping wood should...
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Saturday July 11, 2009 - By Chris
To those checking back...
9:38 pm. All cattle still in original location. Some modifications have begun on the trailer and the onset of darkness has stopped me from finishing said modifications.
We will in good faith attempt to...
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Thursday July 02, 2009 - By Chris
It all started when we decided it was time to claim the firewood we'd stacked from cutting down some trees last summer. It was time to haul it up to the front of the yard nearer the house so that my dad has something to do when he visits (He's a...
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Wednesday June 17, 2009 - By Chris
Aside from my work at the farm and being a 7th grade Language Arts teacher, I also enjoy playing music. This past weekend I was able to jam with some friends who I've known musically for many years. We got a chance to put together some tunes and I...
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Tuesday April 28, 2009 - By Chris
Nope.
Not baseball.
Trout! I've always been into fishing and spent hours at local ponds and "lakes" catching sunfish, bass, and catfish as a kid. I never really experienced trout fishing, though, as I grew up close to the...
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Tuesday March 17, 2009 - By Chris
Ok...I generally write about our farming exploits, mishaps, and ( mis )adventures. But I do want to let a few of our reading friends know what we were up to a couple of weekends ago.
We've been Phish fans for several years. In fact (beware...
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Sunday March 01, 2009 - By Chris
We were cleaning out the young pigs last weekend when our kids came up with a new sport: pig soccer.
After moving out several loads of dirty shavings and mud, we dumped in the new wood shavings. The kids decided that they would help to...
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Friday February 27, 2009 - By Chris
Update on the sap flow here in Scotland, CT. (How come they did away with the old Conn. abbreviation, by the way? I was always partial to that.)
We added 10 more taps in our new sugarbush up the road and collected the sap that ran over the...
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Sunday February 22, 2009 - By Chris
We fired up our new evaporator and worked on our first batch of maple syrup yesterday. We'll be finishing off a little over a gallon of syrup this morning!
We were warned by several people--both in books and in person--to NEVER let the level of the...
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