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How do You Carry Your Eggs?

December 13th, 2013 · 2 Comments · farming

Here’s an early Christmas present from my wife: a vintage wire basket for collecting eggs. Good thing, since we’re now collecting more than a dozen eggs from our hens each day and stuffing them in my coat pocket was starting to get old. But here’s a shocker: the hens don’t lay their eggs at the […]

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Winter Sky

December 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Weather

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Is it Winter Yet?

December 2nd, 2013 · No Comments · farming, Weather

After a pleasant fall, the last part of November has been downright harsh. The day before Thanksgiving we got an inch of snow and temperatures refused to break freezing, with overnight temps dipping into the single digits. Exposed to the morning sun, our local landscape looked like a scene out of Dr. Zhivago. At this […]

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