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		<title>Aargh!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lisa and I are caught in the middle of a fight between two groups we really don&#8217;t like.
Fifteen years ago, we sold a conservation easement on the vast majority of our land to HSUS. It is now officially the Frank and Lisa Richards Wildlife Sanctuary. Even though we&#8217;re now trying to farm, there&#8217;s only relatively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tapped trees today, and Lisa planted the first seeds under lights. The 2010 farming year has begun.
 It was a beautiful day and the sap was running hard. I, of course, couldn&#8217;t find the actual taps, so we had to drive to Bascom&#8217;s to buy some, with the result that I&#8217;ll be lucky to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/03/02/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Four days of truly miserable weather this week. Lots of time for socializing puppies. We installed a dog door into the balcony slider, and Lisa has been chucking the puppies though it as appropriate for the last week. In the last couple days they have started going out voluntarily to do their business. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog breeder and hobby farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Great, just what the world needs, another dog breeder and hobby farmer.&#8221;
Anonymous Reader said that in response to the lovely article in The Keene Sentinel.
 I keep remembering the bumper sticker that I have on my truck. No Farms, No Food. 
Does focusing on heritage breeds who can thrive out on pasture make us a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/02/25/dog-breeder-and-hobby-farm/</link>
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		<title>False Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was beautiful. It went up only to 41, but the sun was warm and the sky was blue. 
I spent the day working on fence. I moved the two strands (never got the third one up) of the house side of the pig paddock back out of the flat area they spent the winter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/02/22/false-spring/</link>
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		<title>New Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The puppies are just over three weeks old now. They are getting so mobile! They waddle around all over the place, play with their siblings, and are starting to play with toys, too. Their tails are just starting to point upward and I&#8217;m seeing a few starting to curl. I think two of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/02/20/new-things/</link>
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		<title>Proposed Guidelines are Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recreational users of federal lands in the west are beginning to object to the millennia old practice of leaving sheep on the open range under the protection of dogs. Ignorant flatlanders do things that even a human shepherd would get justifiably angry about, and then think it&#8217;s unreasonable when the guard dog tries to eat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/02/16/lgd/</link>
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		<title>Seed Order Finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been picking away at the seed order since Christmas, and finally finished it tonight. There&#8217;s no doubt we&#8217;ll still end up scrambling for something we forgot, but that&#8217;s the real world.
The first order was to Miller Nurseries


Qty
	SKU
Item Name
Price
Subtotal


2
GV301
Valentine Rhubarb1
$7.15
$14.30


1
ON3011
Lancelot Leeks1
$12.95
$12.95


2
ON1111
Copra1
$31.45
$31.45


2
ON1101
Mars1
$0.00
$0.00


That&#8217;s one more bundle of onion plants than we bought last year, but probably still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/02/14/seed-order-finished/</link>
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		<title>Midwinter Slog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been keeping busy doing unexciting stuff that needs to be done. 
 We&#8217;re slowly drawing down the mass of pig food and yogurt that we got over the holidays. My best guess is that we&#8217;ll make it to the end of the month before we have to give the piggies bought food. That said, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mackhillfarm.com/2010/02/08/midwinter-slog/</link>
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		<title>The puppies arrive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ So Disa had her puppies one week ago. She did amazing for a first time mama. She had seven puppies, five boys and two girls, we think. (We keep checking!) I was a little worried because it took her a while to push the first one out, over an hour, but after that first [...]]]></description>
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