A longer, colder than usual winter has consequences. Fruit tree pruning has been delayed at least a month in Upstate New York. Our friend Gini said she once pruned in snow shoes. I got started a few days ago. It’s still freezing overnight, as low as 10 degrees on March 29. Our small farm came […]
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Apparently we never got the memo explaining that cows have to be trained to milk. Like most neophytes, I suppose, we just assumed when it came time to making cheese and butter and yogurt and all those other great dairy products our cow after giving birth would calmly stand there munching her hay while we […]
The big moment for our Jersey heifer Emily finally arrived Sunday afternoon. She’d become so swollen and leaky lately, she was literally spraying milk. Around 2:30 in the afternoon I noticed the first signs of tiny hooves emerging from her rear end. Half an hour later, next time I tromped out to the orchard to […]
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