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It’s a happy day when blueberries and cherries are ripe for picking! We spent the the evening in the berry patches after dinner. Strawberries have come and gone, blueberries are…
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Six weeks with the goats
It’s been a little over six weeks since we brought goats to our farm. All in all, it has been very smooth. I was expecting a lot of fence-breaking and…
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Little lambs
We didn’t originally plan to acquire sheep so soon. We felt that goats were going to be enough of an adventure. But we had the space, the pasture, and enough…
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Building a Top Bar Hive
We’re trying a new style of beehive this year called a top-bar hive. It’s new to us and most American beekeepers but is actually a very old style. It predates the…
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Welcome, goats!
We welcomed the newest members of the Grovestead family to the farm this week, a nursing pair of goats! Mother and daughter (properly, nanny and kid) are settling in doing well.…
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Sugar Maple! The Board Game
It seemed fitting that tree-tapping season arrived early this year, as I was working on a new board game concept called “Sugar Maple”, a game about tapping trees and making…
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