"FarmHack is a community for those who embrace the long-standing farm traditions of tinkering, inventing, fabricating, tweaking, and improving things that break. Farmers, engineers, designers, inventors all welcome to bring your ideas for more efficient and sustainable tools and … [Read more...] about FarmHack Intervale/Essex
Full and By Farm
Full and By Farm: Grains Drain the Wallet
The good news is that we found local-ish organic wheat for the season, six tons were delivered from Vermont yesterday. With last year's flooded season we were not able to get any grains from our usual Essex/Willsboro farms. The bad news is that the scarcity and high gas prices … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Grains Drain the Wallet
Full and By Farm: A Stolen Month
We've yet to take down the buckets but it seems that sugaring season has come to a close, a full week before we had even tapped last year. The grass is greening in front of our eyes now, and the soil thermometer registered 75 yesterday in our sandy field. Even more than the … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: A Stolen Month
Full and By Farm: Farm Ambiance
It's been another busy sugar-season week, dominated by long days and late nights of boiling sap. This time of year we get to have all of our meals outside by the fire as well as farm meetings, rarely returning inside other than for sleep. Watching weather come and … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Farm Ambiance
Full and By Farm: Sweet Syrup and Politics
We boiled syrup late into Monday night. I split wood by the nearly full moon as it reflected brightly off of new snowfall, pin point stars and bright planets shining down. And the crisp, crisp air burning into your lungs and fingertips if you stepped more than a few paces from … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Sweet Syrup and Politics