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Week 25, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜June 24, 2022

It’s the solstice week, the time of mighty light, and it’s a green riot out there. The plants have their leaves upstretched to catch all the energy they can. We are three weeks […]

Week 23, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜June 12, 2022

Dr. Martha is away so Dr. DeFranco came an hour north this week to treat Phoebe, one of our trusty old Jersey cows, who injured her teat while getting on the trailer to […]

Week 22, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜June 4, 2022

June has arrived, and with it comes the peak of the light, the pinnacle of the farm year. It seems the sun shines all the time in June. What’s this thing you call […]

Week 21, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜May 27, 2022

You know how Teslas have a mode called ludicrous, for moments of extreme acceleration? Mark’s gears have been stuck in ludicrous for weeks now. How long can this go on? It seems weirdly […]

Week 20, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜May 20, 2022

I plan to tag the year’s 298th lamb today, a single ram born to one of last year’s ewe lambs. To satisfy my itch for round numbers I would like to […]

Week 18, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜May 6, 2022

When I close my eyes at night I see little white lambs on the inside of my eyelids. I dream of lambs, I hear the sound of lambs, and, frankly, I […]

Week 17, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜April 29, 2022

As members know, eating seasonally from the farm means getting reacquainted with the ancient rhythm of the food calendar rather than the perpetual availability of the supermarket. When we eat seasonally, […]

Week 15, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜April 15, 2022

We have new faces on the farm this week. An Amish family from Ohio, the Millers, moved into the little cabin behind the west barn. This will be their home base, as they […]

Week 14, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜April 8, 2022

The peepers are awake and singing, the tiger lilies are up, the egret has returned to the back pond, and this inch of rain has washed all the fields with a new shade […]

Week 13, 2022｜Kristin Kimball｜April 2, 2022

We’re at the brown hinge of the year now that will soon catapult us into the greens. These weeks feel long and slow but we will be grazing in a month. In case […]