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Firewood Strategies

December 12th, 2013 · No Comments · farming, rural life

One of the biggest changes for us since starting a farm in Upstate New York is our new closeness with the elements. That’s especially true as winter wraps its arms around us. Our comfort–even the viability of our living arrangements here–depends on maintaining a fire in our wood stove and an adequate supply of firewood […]

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News from Up North

December 8th, 2013 · No Comments · News from Up North, rural life

We are preparing to get slammed with another blast of snow, sleet, freezing rain. But we are also celebrating the installation of new storm doors as temperatures are forecast to plunge near O degrees Fahrenheit. That’s minus 17.7 degrees Celsius for our European friends. We are stockpiling firewood like mad. Never have we been so […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 28th, 2013 · No Comments · rural life

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