Brrrrrrrrrrr. The news this week: winter seems to have arrived early. This is what the thermometer outside my office window looked like at 7:30 a.m. the other day and it’s even colder this morning. A wind advisory has been issued for today, with gusts expected up to 50 mph, plunging the wind chill into the […]
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Our laying hens have started producing eggs in earnest but not all of them are using the nesting boxes I built for them in their mobile coop. I recently found this trove of eggs hidden in the tall grass some yards away from where the chickens are parked in the orchard. Unfortunately, with temperatures dropping […]
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Alfalfa fields in repose. By now the farmers have made their final cut of hay. The stubble turns golden. The effect is quite impressive when the sun strikes from a certain angle. Here’s the view from our living room…. More than 75 area farmers were traveling to New York this week as part of the […]
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