Climbing Tree Farm

Our hens We started with 25 laying hens. It was fun. We knew each chicken's personality and quirks. We knew which chicken...

You can take a farm kid off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the kid... My kids and I recently visited family in NYC. I...

For the last several months we have been helping students at a local boarding school, Darrow, to prepare for and raise chickens for a proje...

  We've got a LOT of frozen milk stockpiled at our place right now. On these super cold days cases of milk often freeze in the...

  It has been very snowy. We've had snow (and lots of it) a few times a week for a month. At the farm we've also had a huge...

    The chicks have arrived at Darrow School, where we are helping high school students raise and slaughter chickens for their sustai...

We've been regulars at library story hour for over seven years-  both of our kids live(d) for it. I try really, really hard to be the...

Students helping Colby move a round bale.   We're working with Darrow school, a private high school in New Lebanon. The students ...

  Before we had children we had a mental picture of how we would raise our future children. They would be inquisitive, and be shown the w...

We had a fabulous visit with about 25 kids from Mountain Road School. The kids were excited to learn, and were gentle with the animals. ...

We often field the question about whether silvopasturing  (raising pigs in the woods) is harmful to the forest. We took a walk in our woo...

Goslings are soft, and adorable, but not too fragile for BIG two year old love.  Sweet kisses.......but this is not recommended.

Piglets- about 15 weeks old. Just before being moved to a new section of fencing.  So curious!

With as many animals as we are responsible for on our farm, it is difficult for us to leave home for extended periods of time. Luckily, ...

Assembling frames. Our introduction to food production was through growing vegetable gardens. Our garden was beautiful, productive,...