Spring
Week 11 & 12, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜March 27, 2021
A double-header note this week, the consequence of more lambing hours than desk hours recently. Yes, lambs are here, and the potency and stamina of that errant teenage ram is […]
Fat of the Land
Week 10, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜March 13, 2021
The sun was so strong this week the snow cover shrunk from 100% to nothing overnight and the cold water filled the culverts and turned the ditches to rivers, moving from puddle […]
Red herring
Week 9, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜March 6, 2021
Sometimes a story ends in a predictable way but the plot point that gets you there comes out of left field. Mark was away this week, helping his mom and […]
Shearing
Week 8, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜March 1, 2021
For one brief moment during shearing last weekend, I thought the world was ending, via earthquake or bombardment. But no, it was the winter’s load of icy snow, slipping from the roof […]
Late Winter Days
Week 7, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜February 22, 2021
Just a quick and late farm note this week, as I catch up from a long weekend of shearing and all the related work. More on that in the next note.
Lena Waffles
Week 6, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜February 12, 2021
In the wake of last week’s nor’easter Mark called just after sunrise to say I should hurry out with the car and pick up a calf he’d found in the beef herd. […]
Dan
Week 5, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜February 5, 2021
Mark’s father, Dan Guenther, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday night at his family home in New Paltz. He was 77. The nor’easter was blowing, he was shoveling snow, and his heart […]
Crystal Cold
Week 4, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜January 29, 2021
I’m writing this an hour before dawn and the thermometer at our weather station reads 1 degree with a wind chill of -17. Jane, who is 13, is still asleep in the […]
The Year of
Week 3, 2021｜Kristin Kimball ｜January 23, 2021
How could the new year be three weeks old already, with no farm note to mark what has happened? Sometimes it feels like we live in a constant stream of stories here, […]
Solstice Farming
Week 51, 2020｜Kristin Kimball ｜December 18, 2020
There’s so much to be grateful for now, as we pass through the darkest part of a strange, dark year. The big storm went south of us, leaving just enough snow on […]
Essex Farm Pancake Recipe
2 cups Essex Farm pancake mix
½ cup butter milk
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons oil (optional)
sugar to taste (optional)
Milk or water to texture
Incorporate eggs, oil, sugar, and buttermilk into pancake mix. Add milk or water while stirring until batter is slightly lumpy. Ladle about 1/3-1/4 cup batter onto hot greased pan. Makes 8-12 cakes.