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Migration Aggravation

January 25, 2010

Fair warning: This post is heavy geek. The Net is a big part of how we’re trying to make the farm work. Having sites that stay up and a connection that doesn’t suck is as important as getting state meat inspection back. If it’s going to cause your eyes to glaze over, just pretend I [...]

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A Really Rocking Resolution!

January 3, 2010

I keep hearing all my friends making resolutions for the New Year that involve getting fit. I think they are doing it all wrong, though. Why not volunteer at a local farm instead of joining a gym? There are small farms popping up all over urban areas, or just a short drive away. Farms are [...]

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Adventures in Sausage Making

December 29, 2009

We’re making our own sausage for the first time this year. Last time we had the slaughterhouse do it. We were not impressed. We weren’t impressed with the smoked meat either, but they have a new smokehouse, and we have to take one step at a time. In the spirit of one step at a [...]

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Vaporware Has No Bugs

December 28, 2009

I just saw yet another article by a follower of “Austrian Economics” claiming that last year’s economic melt down was not a failure of capitalism, because we don’t actually have capitalism. It’s all very formulaic: next comes the rant against liberalism/welfare/socialism, finishing with the very understated admission that the bailout was actually classic Mussolini fascism, [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2009
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Balage Babble

December 20, 2009

I was mentioning to our Hay Guy (Keith Short in Langdon, NH) that Ella Mae produces more and creamier milk on grass than on hay. He said he had just the thing — balage. We knew people fed that to their cows, but didn’t know if the sheep could eat it. When Lisa was talking [...]

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An Acre is not an Acre

December 19, 2009

Someone mentioned that a lot of people would think that 340 acres was big ag. Actually, if we were farming 340 acres, I’d agree we were big ag. Instead I’ll tell you something about New England agriculture. Virtually all of us own a lot more land than we farm. I once explained the situation to [...]

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