When I started Spy Dog Farm two and a half years ago it was with the latest grazing theories in mind, so-call “managment intensive” grazing that calls for confining the livestock in small areas behind portable electric fencing and moving them to fresh grass on a daily or even more frequent basis. Intensive management improves […]
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You have to be careful what you wish for on the farm. Deep in the throes of winter, you yearn for warmer days and maybe a little green grass. Of course, that day arrives soon enough, and with it a whole lot of work you didn’t have to do when there was two feet of […]
We’re passing a second winter on our new farm and we’ve been tested. Last year was one of the snowiest on record, with more than six feet of total snow. This February turned out to be the second-coldest ever in the Albany area with the mercury averaging 12.6 degrees. Only February 1934 was colder–by a […]
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