Our animals aren’t deterred by freezing temperatures. They’ll continue to graze as long as there is grass to eat. I only wish I’d been able to save more grass for the winter. Part of our management challenge is finding a balance between the number of animals we raise and the ability of our pastures to […]
For what seemed the longest time, our farm was covered in eight inches of the most awful, slushy, slippery kind of snow. Then suddenly, something like spring descended upon us. It began to rain and one morning we woke up to find all of that snow had melted away. Revealed again were pastures of very […]
A December nor’easter has been parked over our area for the better part of the week, upending our autumn routine. We weren’t quite ready for full-on winter, meaning extra work keeping the animals fed and watered and the fire in the wood stove burning. At times like this–essentially a whiteout–there’s little else to do but […]
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