Monday was a glorious day for tapping—our coats, vests, gloves and hats being dropped like bread crumbs along the path in the sugarbush. Within minutes of drilling, each hole was already welling up with sap, a tap was put in, the bucket hung and the sweet plunking sound of the … [Read more...] about Full and By Farm: Tapping the Sugarbush
spring
Essex Farm: Peepers
Check out this week’s Essex Farm news from Kristin Kimball‘s blog: "The rule holds: the first week we hear the spring peepers singing from the pond is the first week the fields are dry enough to work. It has been so every year here and it was so this week. I had my doubts. The … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Peepers
Essex Farm: Welcome Spring
Check out this week’s Essex Farm news from Kristin Kimball's blog: "This week the snow pulled back to reveal the winter-ravaged world. Muck, ruts, bones. A dead frog suspended in the ice at the edge of the pond. Also, a pollywog, alive and swimming in the meltwater. Water … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Welcome Spring
Forced March
"Forced March" Old Spring awakes in all her glorious squalor. Great mounds of dirty snow Weigh down her spongy soil Littered with broken twigs and animal droppings. Fog, dank and chill, obscures both ground and mountains As ice rots on the lakes And limp grass … [Read more...] about Forced March
Spring Flowers 2013
http://youtu.be/NtPUlIaC7J8 [Edit: I've been corrected by my mom who knows this tree better than I--apparently this blossoming tree is a pink flowering crabapple tree.] It's been a dreary few days with all these thunderstorms, so I thought that it would be a good time to … [Read more...] about Spring Flowers 2013