Here’s the thing about buying a farm property with 20 acres of pasture: the grass grows whether you want it to or not. As spring arrived, we were in a race against mother nature. What to do about all that grass? I knew we didn’t want to purchase a mower. What’s the point of building […]
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Many readers responded to our hand-wringing over a tractor purchase and the vote was unanimous: Buy the tractor! My sister Diane, who owned a small farm in northern Illinois with her husband years ago, was emphatic: “We used our tractor ALL the time, and we only had 5.5 acres.” Vermont farmer and author Ben Hewitt […]
We didn’t move to Upstate New York to spew diesel fumes, nor do we want our little slice of heaven to be forever dependent on fossil fuels. Our plan was to build a “sustainable” family farm around pastured livestock. But now that I’ve lived here for a while, I can see that farming on an […]
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