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Why Market was a little awkward last week…
You know Greg. He is scientific and analytical in his thinking, always. He honed these skills while his was in graduate school for chemistry and then somehow (don't ask me how!) found a way to transfer them over to organic farming. The end result is that he's not only...
The ultimate balancing act
It's not often that farmers leave town during the busy season. But when one of your best friends gets married, you find a way to cram three days of work into one day and leave the farm in the dust. Last weekend, with the help of a very capable farm sitter, we did just...
The cat’s out of the bag…
Sometimes when everyone else is zigging, you've just got to zag. We've done this a few times in our business, but probably never as dramatically as we did last week when we shared about how we won't be raising any more organic broiler chickens next year. No matter how...
The scary change we’re making on the farm.
Before he took the plunge and decided he was going to become an organic farmer, Greg would often talk about farming in "someday" sort of terms. Midway through his PhD program, he eventually realized that life's just too short to NOT be doing the thing you love and he...
The thing we do every night.
Confession: I love reading self help books... I'm not sure if it's the stage of life I'm in. Or the stress that comes along with this work that's got me looking outside of myself for insight. But, I'm all about learning new ways of looking at things right now. This...
Is it sketchy that most meat farms don’t do this?
In our first couple of years, I remember we'd be sharing farm photos with our community and people seemed all excited. And then it would happen... Someone would say that they wanted to buy a turkey, but they weren't sure how to feel about it after seeing that picture...
Jenney’s Embarrassing Run-In With the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Have you ever heard of the Dunning–Kruger Effect? If the answer is heck no... then we're all in the same boat. We'd never heard of it before this week when we listened to a beautiful episode of This American Life and nearly died of laughter. So here it is. The...
It’s only August, but we figured it out
It seems that each and every year we farm, there's this overarching theme that becomes apparent to us at some point during the year. The first year was the year of backbreaking effort. We knew, on a practical level, that the best...
As graceful as an elephant on ice skates
There are some weeks where Greg and I are like a pair of synchronized swimmers. We have our routines and we know our respective responsibilities on the farm. Working together feels smooth, graceful and productive. But this past week, we were far from synchronized and...
Do you remember our Fairy Godmother?
Do you remember the newsletter from last December where we shared about our Fairy Godmother? You know, that amazing customer of ours who came into our lives and changed it forever? You can click here if you need a recap on this incredible human being... Well, here's...
3 Things We Learned From Getting Away
We just spent a week up in the Adirondacks. Every day was a clean slate, with absolutely nothing on the to-do list. It was sublime. Compare this to the responsibilities of running the farm and it's quite comical, really. Because then, we had to come home. And come...
So….that didn’t go as planned.
This past week, we spent some time up in the Adirondacks away from the farm! It was glorious and we have lots of stories to share about this later. But as we were prepping for the trip, we couldn't help but think back on the first vacation we ever took together, back...
You won’t believe what we’re doing this week!
Debt is a scary thing for anyone. But for farmers, it can be crushing. Whether we're talking about a farmer growing conventional soybeans down the road or farmers like us who raise organic pasture raised livestock, farmers have steep upfront costs. And because the...
Fires on the farm
Farmers have very interesting relationships with fires. As you probably already know by now, we're almost all quite fond of burning stuff (cough, we burned a giant brush pile last week). But tonight I'm not referring to literal flames. Fire is the word Greg and I use...
Here’s to our dear old Dads
Do you remember this little mother's day tribute we wrote last year? Well, this Sunday is Father's Day and we thought this would be the perfect week to introduce you to our Poppas. They are two of the most amazing people on this earth and without their love and...