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Posted: October 11th, 2008 by
Lisa
The piggy girls got out when I went to the doctor yesterday. I came home to find Frank out herding pigs, and I couldn’t get in front of them with the dogs to drive them back the right way. My stupid knees just aren’t up to running through the brush in the woods. I had
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Posted: September 24th, 2008 by
Frank
The annual race against the snow is on again. I’ve got the bee excluders on the two hives with honey. We’ll extract next week. Lisa ran into a friend from the Monadnock Beekeepers, and he told the same story we have: Nothing in July and early August, then the Japanese Knotweed saving the season.
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Posted: September 16th, 2008 by
Frank
We’ve had varying luck with our bees this year. Of the two packages and two nucs we bought one of each went queenless. The package was probably my fault: I opened the wrong end of the queen cage, so she got out immediately instead of having an extra couple days to establish her place. I’ve
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Posted: September 15th, 2008 by
Frank
What with one thing and another I’ve been paying too little attention to this journal. That’s bad because its’ original and primary purpose is to be our farm journal, to help us in future years. So first, Ella May is the cutest cow in all the world. She is also wicked smart and a worthy
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Posted: July 24th, 2008 by
Frank
Oh, the blasted rain this week has just been awful. I had been on top of all of the basil, but then it rained and rained and rained, and it all flowered while I wasn’t looking. I decided to just bite the bullet today and get soaked while I pinched off all the flowers,
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Posted: July 19th, 2008 by
Lisa
I was so busy this week because I was here by myself, had a dog in heat, plus all the usual farm stuff that I swear I kept forgetting to eat almost every day. Not good, because I know I need to fuel my body if I’m going to work so physically hard, but
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Posted: July 6th, 2008 by
Lisa
I started these braised grass-fed beef short ribs using this recipe. But because I’m trying to use locally available ingredients as much as possible, I adapted it. * 4 pounds grass-fed beef short ribs * Coarse salt and black pepper
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Posted: June 28th, 2008 by
Lisa
We eat our own pork chops all the time, and man oh man are they ever tasty. Pastured pork is so different from factory farmed pork that I can hardly call it the same thing at all. I like to cook it on the grill with just a little salt and pepper, nothing else,
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Posted: June 22nd, 2008 by
Frank
Last Saturday I brought home our two nucs from Charlie Andros over at Linden Apiaries. I plunked them down and proceeded to check the rest of the hives as well. One of the two packages from Black Cat was doing fine, and I gave it a second hive body. By the way, it seemed
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Posted: June 4th, 2008 by
Lisa
In hindsight it seems fitting That with Valentine’s Day near Minerva met the world In vibrant pink from hoof to ear. Known to friends as “Minnie,” She’s renowned at Mack Hill Farm For her bottle-fed beginnings And pervasive porcine charm. Her every move is followed By the barnyard sows and hogs Who grant her
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