Essex Farm and the Essex Inn are hosting a farm tour and dinner on Saturday, July 23rd. There will be an optional work session at the farm from 10am to noon. This session might include a weed brigade, harvest, a building project, a cleanup project, or a combination of all … [Read more...] about Essex Farm Summer Celebration
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Full and By Farm, June 30, 2011
If there's one thing I've learned in farming it's to always be grateful. Things come and go on farms with nowhere near fair warning, if you always focus on what you just lost you'd go insane. When your barn falls down, be happy that no one was in it. When you lose a horse, be … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm, June 30, 2011
Full and By Farm, June 23, 2011
We took advantage of the beautifully sunny weather spell to make hay. We cut about 22 acres starting last week, and successfully baled 19 of it. The rain caught us in the middle of raking the last small field and we had to abandon the project. Once the grass and clover is cut … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm, June 23, 2011
Mixing It Up with Raucous Farmers at the Grange
The Greenhorns, a national nonprofit organization led by a self described "raucous posse of America’s new generation of farmers," will host a grange hall mixer at the historic Whallonsburg Grange Hall on the shores of Lake Champlain this Saturday, June 25th beginning at 10 am... … [Read more...] about Mixing It Up with Raucous Farmers at the Grange