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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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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...
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Monday August 03, 2009 - By Emily
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to see us at the stand's reopening on Saturday! After being closed for over 3 years, we weren't sure what kind of turnout we would have. Once the stand opened, everything ran smoothly, but we did have a little more...
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Monday July 27, 2009 - By Chris
Last week, or sometime thereabouts, we had to load three of our hogs onto the trailer in order to take them to be processed. As readers will recall, our first experience loading pigs, while perhaps comical, took WAY TOO LONG! This time we had it...
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Heirloom Country Farms -
Sunday May 24, 2009 - By Rob & Katharine
05-24-09 We have Fresh Suckling Piglets ready for your dining pleasure! These are completely and 100% chemical free, pasture raised, born and raised right on our farm from our own CRITICALLY ENDANGERED heirloom breed of stock called the Gloucestershire...
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Harp Turkey Ranch -
Wednesday May 06, 2009 - By Wes
We get alot of emails on how we raise our poultry here on the farm, so decided it would be a good topic to discuss on the blog. There is basically two different ways to raise your pastured poultry. We are going to discuss both ways. We raise all...
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Tuesday April 21, 2009 - By Wes
Here at the ranch all the animals have jobs too. Their jobs are to do the back breaking work of clearing and tilling the land, at the same time fertilizing and spreading it too. The pigs have gotten more done then I first thought they would. They have to till...
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Sunday April 12, 2009 - By Wes
Wanted to wish every body a happy Easter Holiday. We finished our first batch of Poulet Rouge Broilers last week. Everything went great and the chicken tasted great. We were able to fill every order that we pre sold, leaving only 2 chickens for us to enjoy...
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Saturday April 04, 2009 - By Wes
Would just like to share some photos that i had taken this afternoon of the poulet rouge broilers. They are going to be processed on Wed. April 8 th just a few days away. I'll report dressed weights. The farm is buzzing now. I start at daylight...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday March 29, 2009 - By Chris
Here are some of the much anticipated photos of our baby farm animals. We've been quite busy getting things prepared for their births and arrivals, as well as with sugaring, but here are some shots of the recent additions to our farm.
Moments after...
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Harp Turkey Ranch -
Friday March 20, 2009 - By Wes
The first batch is now 9 weeks old. I weighed four of them today as the suspense was killing me. 1@4lbs - 2@5lbs - 1@6lbs, Keep in mind that was on a cheapo scale, but I did calibrate it with a 10 lb weight before I weighed them so they should be pretty close...
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Sunday March 15, 2009 - By Wes
Our third doe had her new kids this morning. Went out for feedings and there they where. A beautiful set of twins. 1F - 1M. So that puts us at 8n ew goat kids this year. 2 more then expected. All in all we have 4F-4M kids. Now means we have 4 new does to add...
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Thursday March 12, 2009 - By Wes
Wow we just had a second set of triplets yesterday. 1F - 2M. What a start to a new season on the new property. We have now have what we expected to get from all three does, but we still got one more doe that is due any time now. Will it be another set of...
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Bluewater Bay Bucking Bulls -
Wednesday March 11, 2009 - By Cowmomma
We have been providing hospice pig care to our 15 year-old pot bellied pig Jordan Hamlet for the past year. He seemed to have cancer with spread to his liver and we had constructed a special pen for him in our garage with heat so he could get outside on...
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Tuesday March 10, 2009 - By Wes
Last night we had a doe give birth to 3 new kids !!! 2 girls and 1 boy. Been waiting for her to have her kids for the last 2 days, finally last night sometime she did. Woke up this morning went outside to do my chores and heard a very weird sound. Oh yeah that...
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Wednesday March 04, 2009 - By Wes
Just wanted to update you on the new Marans chicks that have hatched out in the last few weeks. These are a mix of a few different kinds of Marans. There is Black Copper,Cuckoo,Splash,and Blues in this brooder. I just took out 30 chicks that had hatched that...
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Sunday March 01, 2009 - By Wes
Well it is still not spring here and the grasses have not really started to grow, there are some new shoots but not alot yet. So since the broilers were tearing up the grass and it was not re-growing we figured to move them over to where we are clearing to be...
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Friday February 20, 2009 - By Wes
Our Certified Naturally Grown application was accepted today. For those of you that don't know what Certified Naturally Grown is let me explain...
Certified Naturally Grown was created to ENCOURAGE
people to purchase from the small...
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Wednesday February 18, 2009 - By Wes
Wanted to post this video I took this morning of the chicks out doing their thing on the grass. They are very active and run, if you watch close in the corner you'll even see one flying up about a foot in the air. View My Video
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