Climbing Tree Farm

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...

Piglets! Tina gave birth to 15 piglets March 3rd. They were born outside on a 0 degree night onto a bed of hay (in a sea of snow) that th...

It's been cold enough and snowy enough to make our lives extremely difficult this last month or so,  but damn is it beautiful. I hav...

Guess which acorn grew on a tree that was fertilized by pig manure last year? The giant acorn fell from a tiny Red Oak tree in a spot t...

Hickory nuts Acorns This is a fabulous nut year. Have you noticed? We've been slipping on them there are so many! This is great...

Grey sky. Snow patches. Brown grass.  It may not look like much, but this here is one of the first signs of spring! The sheep are spread...

We've been looking for years for a Mulefoot Boar to breed,  and haven't been able to find a fella for the job. We generally hav...

 After many years of brooding chicks in our basement (which is smelly, dusty and cumbersome), we now have a chick brooding shed. the ...

  Baby raccoon has been visiting a lot lately to eat dried crab apples.

    Our leased land includes a large field that was cleared for building a jumbo house, and then the project was canceled, leaving ...

One of our neighbors. I recently read this: “Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, firs...

Climbing Tree View I was interviewed this week for an article about land conservancy farmer/ landowner match programs. Here is. Our fa...

Above is a photo of a particularly beautiful, and particularly hungry neighbor of  ours. We recently sold our flock of laying hens and thi...