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Mushrooms

The End of Summer

September 6, 2009

Labor Day is as late as it can possibly be this year. For most New Englanders that meant an extra stolen week of summer. And a lovely week it was. The farm told us that Labor Day was last week. The nights got chilly, the bug count went down, the last few frogs quit croaking [...]

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Bumper crop of trumpets

July 27, 2009

We are having an amazing season for black trumpets this year. I guess it’s because there’s been so much rain, but the places where we usually find them are covered in them, and places where we’ve never seen them before are equally covered. It’s really fun to go out with baskets and have to come [...]

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A Flourish of Trumpets

July 12, 2009

Today was the third beautiful day in a row. There might actually be some hay this year. We were out this afternoon running high tensile around where Lisa had the horses earlier this year. As soon as we’re done, the pigs get moved in to bury the horse manure and excavate the smaller rocks. It’s [...]

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This Time for Sure

June 28, 2009

Well, the high tensile didn’t keep our sheep in. It lasted two days, then Kaytla, Minx and Gracie each brought in separate parties, while Fiona and the good sheep stayed out with the horses. We had guessed that we could extend the perimeter fence to where the snowmobile trail hits the swamp with two more [...]

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Duck and Wild Mushroom Soup

June 14, 2009

The one good thing about all this rain we have been having is that there are mushrooms everywhere. Frank was headed up the road to see if he can figure out how the sheep are breaking out, and came back really quickly for a mushroom basket because he spotted these Oyster Mushrooms not far from [...]

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Yay! 'Shrooms

August 3, 2008

Last year we skimmed along the edge of drought for most of the summer, and as a result the mushrooming stank. Despite many trips into the woods, we got a single not very full gallon freezer bag of black trumpets. The good news is that it was just enough on top of 2005′s spectacular stash [...]

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One Local Summer Week 9

August 2, 2008

I made a zero-mile meal for dinner tonight, after we went mushroom hunting in our woods and scored loads and loads of oyster mushrooms. We found a dead cherry tree just covered in them, and they were right at prime in both size and age. Sweet! Actually, oyster mushrooms are slightly sweet. We’ve found them [...]

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