hi there. it looks as if it's still coooold up your way. we hit 50s this weekend, so most of the snow here is gone. still pretty darn chilly at night, though, which is ok with me.
i envy the wonderful smell of your sap boiling....such a gift of nature. have fun! :)
We started a farm a few years ago to grow our own food. Right now we have 5 miniature cows, 10 chickens for eggs, and four hives of bees. We grow vegetables and fruit too.
We've raised hogs in the past, but we're now taking turns doing that with other families. We realized that you can't be self sufficient alone, so we helped to start a collective to grow food together in a large garden and to take turns raising hogs and chickens for meat. We also do group buying of local flour, oats, meats, and produce. This year we'll build a stone oven together too.
Although our family is trying to be more self sufficient when it comes to food, we kept our day jobs. Bob is a family doctor. Mary is a communications and public policy consultant, and has been a Vermont Public Radio commentator for 12 years. We have three teenage kids, and they all help around the farm.
Our farm is called Bosky Dell Farm, meaning an earthy clearing in the woods. That's what our farm is like. We have 16 acres of mature sugar woods, and 6 of pasture. We planted a small orchard last year.
Mary is involved with the local sustainability efforts, helping to organize workshops in growing and preparing food, building the website http://vteatlocal.org/ and helping organize the county-wide eat local challenge each fall. We're trying to get a food co-op store going here too.
Morning at Spring Park
by
Eliza Allen Starr
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Along the upland swell and wooded lawn
The aged farmer’s voice is heard at dawn:
That well known call across that dewy vale
Call Spark and Daisy to the milking pale.
The robin chirps; from farm to farm I hear
The bugle note of wakeful chanticleer;
And far, far off through grove and bosky dell,
The dreamy twinkle of sleek Snowflake’s bell.
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hi there. it looks as if it's still coooold up your way. we hit 50s this weekend, so most of the snow here is gone. still pretty darn chilly at night, though, which is ok with me.
i envy the wonderful smell of your sap boiling....such a gift of nature. have fun! :)
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