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Thistle Blooms

Posted in bees, ecology, farm, newsletter, permaculture, soil improvement, weeds, tagged bees, farming, newsletter, thistles, weeds on July 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »

In the last four years that we have lived here on this property, the summer’s have brought with them hordes of this nasty, prickly weed. The first few years, it was hard to squat and work in the veggie field without getting poked, and if we tried to work in our regular, thin gardening gloves, [...]

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A labour of love

Posted in ecology, family, farm, farming, newsletter, Wendell Berry, tagged family, farming, newsletter, Wendell Berry on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. “–Wendell Berry Can they taste the love of the farmer in the food picked from their own field, in the fruit that another [...]

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New LIfe on the Farm Front

Posted in changes, children, community, cycles, duality, ecology, family, farm, farming, local food, nature, newsletter on May 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Baby Goat Pickle, photo courtesy of farm member, April Watko Life on the farm is very cyclical, and although the seasons and their comings and goings, have always been at the forefront of my awareness, coloring my world both outside and in, there is also on the farm this continual presence of the duality of [...]

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First CSA Harvest of 2009!

Posted in changes, children, CSA, ecology, family, farm, farming, Halloween, local food, nature, newsletter, spring on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Photos by Olorin Jaillet! Although we find ourselves 7 or 8 weeks past our hoped for starting date for the 2009 season, we are pleased to be starting 6 weeks earlier this season than last, making for 35 weeks of veggie harvests this year. Providing our farm members with fresh and healthy food for 2/3 [...]

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