I know it looks beautiful, but those trees are turning way too early. In fact, they started turning back in July! The strange weather — 80 degree days back in March followed by frosts, long dry spells followed by torrential downpours, and hotter than normal summers in general — is no doubt taking a toll.…

This is another field we've been working on this summer. As I mentioned in a previous post about the other field we cleared, this was also part of the same, once-productive farm. This used to be exceptional hayground about 40 years ago. We know that because the fellow who picks up our trash said his…

I took these photos on Friday evening of Wilbur checking out the long row of dog dishes drying on the back deck. The barely one-year old dishwasher quit working on Thursday — about a week after the warranty expired, of course! — and so we're back to washing them all by hand. This is the…

I thought you'd enjoy seeing some photos of the farm taken by someone else — in this case, Judy H., who was here for our visitor day earlier this month. Judy took a lot of very interesting shots during her visit, posted them on her Flickr page, and kindly gave us permission to share them…

Dexter hasn't really been himself since we lost our beloved Goldie a couple of months ago. He loved Goldie — she was really his best pal, and the dog he snuggled with most of the time (though sometimes not to his liking!). He seemed to spend the first few weeks looking for her, and was…

You may not want to read this if you're living in a part of the country that is suffering from drought and intense heat, because this post is about rain. And plenty of it.  I took the photo a few days ago, after the dog dish had collected the previous night's rainfall — two inches.…

For the past few weeks we've been enjoying watching an extended family of wild turkeys make themselves at home on the farm. The group includes a number of hens and their youngsters, which have been cruising across the fields, through the orchards and around the pond. (You may need to click on the photo for…

Alayne took this photo of three of our blind horses resting early on a recent morning. Kate and I had been cleaning the corrals and spreading manure, and it takes us the better part of two days, even with one of us spreading with the tractor and the other spreading with our draft horses, Bill…

New England is well known for rocky ground (with New Hampshire called the "Granite State") and historically, farming in this part of the country involved clearing lots of rocks before you could begin tilling. Hence the thousands of stone walls around fields across the region. Over the last 100 years or so, as farms were…

New Hampshire's major daily newspaper, the Union Leader, carried a very nice feature story on the farm in yesterday's edition. The reporter had come out last Thursday to visit with us and meet the animals. You can read the story here. Please note that sometimes newspapers archive a story soon after publication and the original…