Bosky Dell Farm

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The wind is just howling - the roads slick with a coating of a couple inches of snow and a little bit of ice. I need to go out and feed and water the cows and check on the chickens, but I'm dreading putting myself outside the back door!

Days like today I like to bake bread and make soup. Today I was supposed to drive to a conference in Burlington and is taking a snow day instead. You can't even see the house next door with the white-out conditions.

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We're growing food and cooking it like maybe your grandparents used to do. A little pinch of this and a pinch of that, those folks knew how to use up good food in season, and how to capture summer's glory in Ball jars, and freezers.

I really love to memorize the standard recipes, and then change the ingredients to match what is coming out of our garden. I subsitute zucchini for chard, for red peppers. I roast the red peppers to keep throughout the winter too.

We started a farm a few years ago to grow our own food. Right now we have 3 miniature cows, 50 meat chickens, 10 chickens for eggs, 8 turkey poults, and three 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're trying turkeys this year 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 lobbyist for early childhood programs, and has been a Vermont Public Radio commentator for 12 years. We have three adult and 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 too.