From the monthly archives:

December 2011

Be a person, not a page

by Lisa on December 26, 2011

A common mistake that I see people (especially farmers) make is trying to participate in social media arenas as an entity (a “page”) rather than as a person with a page. They register as “Awesome Farm” not Jane Farmer who manages a business called Awesome Acres.

It slows down the ability of fans to interact with them. It should be easy to connect, not rely on confirmation from you to accept the request.

If you try to “friend” me as Lisa Richards on Facebook, it can take me days to respond because I’m too busy actually farming to talk about farming. But you can become a fan of Mack Hill Farm whenever you want. I try to link to videos and photos from there as often as I can. I aim for once a day but don’t always make it.

You can watch videos of critters whenever you want on our Mack Hill Farm YouTube channel. No permission necessary.

It’s easier for people to share your stuff, too, because it’s all public.

Calendar coverWe still have several Mack Hill Farm 2012 calendars available.

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Quiet Christmas

December 25, 2011

It’s been a quiet Christmas season this year. Not quite our quietest, since we do have five puppies in the living room. We still have one available, along with many Mack Hill Farm calendars. The maple candy and the last of the syrup sold out for Christmas. Winter weather finally arrived yesterday, despite forecasts of [...]

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Calendars, candies and cuties

December 14, 2011

Just in time for holiday gift giving, we have two items that we have working from our fancy new online store. First, I put together a 2012 calendar of all the cute critters we have around here. I tried to include everyone, and I tried to make the photos somewhat match the seasons. We sure [...]

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The Puppy Channel

December 6, 2011

What an amazingly warm fall we’ve been having. (I mean, aside from the few times that we’ve had snow. At least it all melted. Twice.) The ground isn’t even frozen yet, which feels late for us. We’ve had enough rain that it’s like a whole extra mud season. But it still gives us extra time [...]

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