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Riverview Farms -
Friday October 23, 2009 - By Charlotte and Wes
We are currently looking for a full-time person to work on our farm. We offer housing, food, and pay. A 2 year commitment is necessary. You will learn all aspects of farming from marketing to cleaning up after pigs to growing veggies. ...
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Hurricane Farm -
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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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Tuesday October 13, 2009 - By Emily
We said goodbye to our two black Angus beef cows last night. Because of government regulations, the only animal we can legally process start to finish and sell here are the chickens. All other meat animals get picked up and transported to...
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Wednesday October 07, 2009 - By Emily
We've worked hard to get an electric fence up around the smallest part of the barnyard so our little piglets can get some fresh air and sunshine. Many of our customers who stopped by last Saturday enjoyed seeing them run around;...
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Tuesday September 22, 2009 - By Emily
What weighs 750 lbs, has tusks, a bad attitude, and won't stay where he's supposed to? Lately the answer has been our boar (male pig) Wilbur. Normally, he's quite a pleasant guy to be around; he loves having his back scratched and will take a...
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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...
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Monday September 14, 2009 - By Emily
On a farm, by necessity, you live seasonally. This is the time of year when I'm busy freezing and canning what I am able to prepare before the first killing frost and the long winter that follows. It's generally not time for babies. Today was...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday August 24, 2009 - By Chris
One of the projects that was on the slate this summer was to install gutters along the front edge of the barn. Mainly I wanted to keep some of the water out of the pig pen, but also I wanted to try to keep the rain splashing on the barn sills to a...
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Hurricane Farm -
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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Hurricane Farm -
Monday June 29, 2009 - By Chris
There is so much to do that sometimes we don't take time to notice how large some of our animals are getting, especially as they transtition from little babies. Remember those hogs that we used to till up our gardens, orchard, and bramble patch? We...
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Red Barn Heirloom Gardens -
Thursday June 25, 2009 - By Darren
Another hot and humid day in Daleyville. We had to start thinning out our radishes and lettuce that have started to bolt because of the hot weather. It always seems like such a shame! If anyone has had success in delaying this, let me know...
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Red Barn Heirloom Gardens -
Tuesday June 23, 2009 - By Darren
These beets are the best we've ever had for mid June... can't wait!
Our earliest batch of summer squash ever!
Caleb's doing a great job getting the keeping the pigs happy, especially in 94 degree weather!
Here they...
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Red Barn Heirloom Gardens -
Saturday June 20, 2009 - By Darren
After much debate and searching we've purchased 4 feeder pigs that are a Duroc / Hampshire cross to raise out for butchering this fall. We spent a great deal of time searching for either some Red Wattles or Black Mulefoot, but just didn't turn up...
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Heirloom Country Farms -
Wednesday June 17, 2009 - By Rob & Katharine
See our sites front page for generally up to the minute entries, where we're just "chirping" away!
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Thursday May 28, 2009 - By Emily
The fields and garden are nearly planted. The only major planting task left is to finish planting the last of the field corn. However, with the rain we've had over the last few days that may have to wait until the weekend, the field is too wet to...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday May 18, 2009 - By Chris
We still have not uploaded the photos from the weekend, but here are some to hold us all over for a little while.
Here we have some hogs--snouts sullied--after a hard afternoon's rooting session.
They have cleared all of the land for our...
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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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Hurricane Farm -
Wednesday May 06, 2009 - By Chris
The "little" pigs have finished tilling up our orchard area and we have planted four apple trees so far. The trees are already starting to form buds!
So it was time to move the piglets to a new area in which they can put their concerted...
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Cottonwood Farm -
Saturday May 02, 2009 - By Kathy & Lynn
Ok...it's May 2nd. We've had the April showers...oh, man, did we ever. So much it's now spread into May. It's chilly and damp outside, and I'm bitting at the bit to get outside and do something....but there is nothing I can do!
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