New Arrivals
So many new arrivals this week. Yes, indeed, piglets have been one of them. Madison delivered in the wee hours of Friday morning. While she, and the farmer nurses, have had a rough go of it, she and...
View ArticleNew Faces on the Farm
There are many new faces around the farm these days, some of them human, some of them not. Indeed the newest faces are Checkers’ piglets that she delivered late Tuesday night. She wasn’t due Checkers...
View ArticlePiglets, Frosts & Friends
We’d seen it in the forecasts and sure enough the cold set in. Jonathan Lipkin, photographer, rolled in from New York (a project in gestation phase) at 6:30 Friday morning. He tagged along as we...
View ArticleNew Arrivals!
It has been a busy week of arrivals! From Green Mountain Heritage Farm we picked up the newest Green Mountain Girls – three piglets that will be our new breeding stock. They are only 6 weeks old...
View ArticleRamona and the Rains
The beauty of piglets came back to us this week. After a changing of the guard in the winter of 2013 and a year of raising three beautiful breeding gilts (young female pigs) from the Whalen’s Green...
View ArticleMoving Parts
Celsius and Farenheit, along with mom Amelia moved out to pasture to join the other pigs this week Not only are the animals on the move this week as they always are, but the farmers are too. With Laura...
View ArticleSpam, Sperm and feedback loops
Seth Godin, a vibrant thinker on marketing, says that if your e-newsletter would not be missed by members of your audience, then it is spam! What do you appreciate about what we share weekly with you...
View ArticleNow That is a Village!
The Floating Bridge opening and celebration was amazing! As we arrived in Hippo Park, Sandy Schmitt, VTrans Bridge engineer and Brookfield resident was scooting around with a wheel barrow tidying...
View ArticleDry to Wet
The season has turned from too dry to good and wet! The heirloom tomatoes are growing like crazy and have had their first pruning. A large kale harvest has made way for sweet potatoes. The goats are...
View ArticleGrowing & Ripening
While we are happy to not have drought conditions like the western US, all the live beings on the farm have been happy to see a bit more sun this past week. It is July and we are in a season of...
View ArticleIn Praise of Tamworths
We had some snowy arrivals this week. It seems both goats & pigs were waiting until the wintery snow came back to bring their little ones into the world. Perhaps they are winter lovers, perhaps...
View ArticleWelcome the Environmentalists
Our first due date this year for new births was Earth Day, so we thought we should honor that (and our Farm’s strong philosophy) by choosing Environmentalists as the naming scheme for the year. Several...
View ArticleIntroducing the Piglets
We are a bit behind on naming and introducing the first batch of piglets that were born at the farm on March 1st. Fortunately, a young visiting writer & photographer prepared some profiles of each...
View ArticleA Week of Arrivals
Arrivals has been our theme this week…and the week isn’t out yet! It started with our first load of lovely hay… a nice full trailer on Sunday afternoon. Always a moment of joy and “Oh, unloading that...
View ArticleIntroducing the Summer Piglets
So there are 20 piglets exploring, digging, snoozing, grazing, begging their sows and learning about belly rubs on the farm. Lassie teaching the piglets about the joys of Lambs Quarter Lassie, Toto...
View ArticleComing Full Circle
Hannah & Darienne giving the 4 very pregnant sows belly rubs. Perhaps Hannah’s good belly rubs this day for Tabitha & Grizabella encouraged them to delivery under her watch. (click for video)...
View ArticleSweet Peas & Piglets
Come enjoy sweet snap peas as well as meeting sweet pea, the spotted tiny piglet and his littermates! What a combo! Sweet Pea & Bergamot exploring at day 4! Celebrate Summer & Solstice with...
View ArticleSummer Farm Views
Summer is in full swing….. Dosa “helping” bring beet greens to the piglets! And with the recent rain, it seems the farmers and the plants & animals are breathing a little sigh of relief (and...
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