The Blog Barn

At about 2:30am on Saturday evening I was awoken from a sound sleep by Finn, our Labrador retriever, barking in the front room. If you have been reading my blog for a while you will already know that this is not an entirely uncommon occurrence but...

Week 6 Newsletter with Recipes

Maplewood Organics   -   Jul 20, 2009 - By Hannah and Eric

CSA Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 6- NMC July 20, 2009 __________________________________________________________________________________ Week 6 New to everyone this week: broccoli, carrots, green cabbage! More exciting new additions for...

The deer ate my green beans ...............(071709...

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

Last week I went out to check the garden, after all those days of rain.My transplants looked fine, seeds were sprouting, and then I noticed that the tops of most of the bean plants were gone!A few sunflower tops were missing too.I looked around for tell-tale...

Seeding the pasture (071309)

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

All the work that Dan has done to help with drainage seems to be paying off.We are continuing to have excessive rain, but as time goes by, more and more of the pasture area is usable, i.e., you can walk without sinking halfway to your knees!Our little ‘farm...

Salsa Soup (070609)

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

Here in New Hampshire we have only a short season for fresh off-the-vine tomatoes.As the plants grow we impatiently wait to harvest them.In the meantime, please enjoy our quick, pantry-style spicy tomato soup. Ingredients: Olive oil A couple cups or so of...

The Birds (063009)

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

Don’t worry........ this is not an Alfred Hitchcock type entry! A fun thing about living here is all the birds!Ever since we’ve moved here, we’ve been focused on creating our pasture.We did move several hundred perennials over here from our former home, but...

Rain, rain, go away! (062409)

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

Here in the northeast it has been raining for the past week and it seems like it’s getting to be time for us to build the ark.I’ve been reading a rather funny thread on alpacanation about all rain we’ve been getting here in New Hampshire, Maine, and the entire...

Working the pasture, making it ‘paca’ ready..........

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

Late last summer we had a local logger and his crew clear about 3 acres of woods and brushy overgrowth.It was done ‘rough grade’ as Dan wanted to do the finish work himself.What a wonderful job they did!There were many, many large rocks that they carefully...

First Blog Entry (061509)

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 19, 2009 - By Mona

Welcome to Sweet Harmony Farm’s first blog entry. As I sit here typing it is yet another cloudy, rainy day, after a week of cloudy, rainy days.I am looking out the windows at beautiful green grass on our back lawn, filled with many clumps of blooming white...

Small scale: Baby beef bought and bottlefed, Darin...

Anonymous Farm   -   Jul 18, 2009 - By Risha

The farm is diversifying and evolving. Got freezer beef? We sold out our pastured chickens in no time at all and will encourage repeat customers and new customers to pre-order so we know how many to raise. 2 young goats were processed and have been tried with...