Yesterday the snow finally came in big flakes, turning the hard bare landscape soft and quiet. This year’s transition from brilliant autumn colors to snowy winter was a long one. This first snow reminds me: We don’t know how long the journey between seasons will be. We don’t know how many days will be the […]
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“Did your parents think you were crazy for doing this?” A friend asked me this the other day, talking about the farm and our early years living in a yurt with no running water. “I don’t think so…at least they haven’t said that out loud to me,” I told her. “But when I think back
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Ask what Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is, and you’re likely to get an answer like this: CSA is a way of purchasing directly from a farm, where you pay for a season’s worth of food up front. This gives the farmer cash in the off-season, and as an incentive for paying early, you get a
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“You just need to go with the flow,” Edge said the other morning as we tried to get a 5 minute conversation in before breakfast ended. The lack of structure to our homeschool routine (or, more accurately, non-routine) had me frustrated and second-guessing just how possible running a farm while homeschooling really is. Not to
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This essay was originally published in Local Banquet in 2015. With both hands, I reach into the crate of chickens. “I’m sorry!” I say to the chicken as it flaps in my less-than-confident grasp. The butcher just showed me how to properly handle a bird: two hands on their legs, chest down, and pick up.
Harvest. Slaughter. Process. Butcher. Read More »
It’s cold here in Vermont — on Thursday it rained, snowed, hailed, and was sunny, cloudy, and windy all in one day. April is tricky like this, bringing us birdsong and melting snow, but also testing our resolve. When it’s dry enough, we can work the beds outside. When it’s too wet, we can work
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