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Newsletter 8/25/21

By johnh | August 25, 2021

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, This is Evan writing today – I hope you don’t miss Adam too much as we share the joy and labor of producing this newsletter! It’s been a pleasure to hear responses and reactions to Erika’s and Ava’s writing from last week. Please know we always invite and welcome replies with…

Newsletter 8/18/21

By johnh | August 18, 2021

Photo: Ben Sklar Hello Friends and Neighbors, This is Erika writing to you today. For those of you I haven’t met, I am a member of the Farm Team. You’ll often find me around the gift stand or in the gardens tending to veggies – come say hi! I am writing to share the story…

Newsletter 8/11/21

By johnh | August 11, 2021

Photo: Dick Mitchell Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Adam here. I was asked to do an interview with Ric Cengeri for his radio show Vermont Viewpoint last week. You can listen to the interview HERE. Ric had clearly done some research on the Farm and asked some interesting questions, including:     How is the model sustainable?…

Newsletter 8/4/21

By johnh | August 4, 2021

Photo: Dick Mitchell Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Heavy Rains create muddy conditions in the poorly drained hill pastures, and with another inch on the way we decide it is time to run the Sheep flock back to the well-drained flats of the Home Farm, about three quarters of a mile along the paved Main Road.…

Newsletter 7/28/21

By johnh | July 28, 2021

Photo: Ben Sklar Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Haze arrives in the night, casting the morning hills in reds and oranges. I look out through the rear window as the car speeds along the highway, a two-hour return trip from my father’s birthday dinner in the opposite corner of the state. The haze makes the normally…

Newsletter 7/21/21

By johnh | July 21, 2021

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Day 1 on the Hill. It is nearly dark when I arrive at the small clearing where I will sleep and sit for three days, on a high Mountain Ridge above the Farm. My clothes are sweat-soaked and muddied from the steep climb – wading through waist-deep Nettles and Ferns, remembering…

Newsletter 7/14/21

By johnh | July 14, 2021

Photo: Dick Mitchell Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Have you noticed the push and pull of North and South Winds this past week? The changing qualities of Light and Air, Sun and Shadow, Heat and Coolness, Wet and Dry? Last Friday morning I mixed and shaped bread doughs in the pre-dawn dark as Rain ran down…

Newsletter 7/7/21

By johnh | July 7, 2021

Photo: John Hadden Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Catbird lands on the porch railing just outside the open screen door, peers inside, and begins to chatter, to speak. A sing-song-soliloquy of non-repeating phrases. A vocal marvel. A sudden, wild interjection. The human conversation around the table on our side of the screen door stops short as…

Newsletter 6/30/21

By johnh | June 30, 2021

Greetings Friends and Neighbors, A week ago, Monday. The cut Grass from two days of hand-mowing – well over a hundred person-hours of labor – lays spread out to dry in the field. The day dawns cloudy, the air heavy and already warm. And then a rain shower arrives. This is not good. The drops…

Newsletter 6/23/21

By johnh | June 23, 2021

Photo: Dick Mitchell Greetings Friends and Neighbors, The final morning of the Scythe School arrives and the forecast is clear enough to mow for Hay. Acre: an old measurement of the land area that a skilled person could mow by hand with a scythe in a day. This etymology arrives as humbling news as we…