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April Showers Bring...

4/16/2013

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What do April Showers bring???? Hopefully May flowers, but at Wild Carrot Farm they've already brought:

****"Brand New Baby Goats"! I've been delaying writing this post, hoping that Melba will give birth to the calf (calves?) that are bulging out of her sides so far that she can barely go from standing to lying down without laborious breath. We have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of her calves for many reasons - baby cows are so cute(!)..... and also it will start the season of milk! (Goat milk excepted... already available weekly!) Whilst waiting for Melba to calve, Calamity Jane had two beautiful kids- a doeling and a buckling. They are so healthy and happily skipping around that no picture can do them justice.

**** PLOWING the fields for the first spring planting! As of this writing, we have seeded peas, carrots, beets, and transplanted kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and swiss chard.

****BABY CHIX get their first excursion onto fresh grass! When the chicks are born, they need to be very dry and very warm, and are kept in a brooder with appropriate temperature control. Today, we moved the brooder out of the greenhouse and put up some portable fencing. Onto greener pastures!

****SHEPHERD training! OBIE (Obediah) our sweet border collie has found his calling, and his instincts are quite keen. He loves bringing the ewes and lambs out to pasture in the morning, and back to the barn each evening. Now we need to start training the ourselves to communicate to Obie which direction to take them!

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March 19th, 2013

3/19/2013

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We drove the horses to town today.  Four of us in the sleigh behind the Halflingers.  Why, you ask?  Well, we needed a $5 item from the hardware store, the truck was stuck in the snow, and . . . because we could!  

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Frosty progress...

1/26/2013

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Ashlyn has been busy knitting up a storm. In addition to her addiction to goats she is currently the spinner at Green Mountain Spinnery, where they take small lots of fiber from local and national farmers and turn it into some of the most beautiful, high quality fiber. Ben has been braving the freezing cold to prune apple trees at Scott Farm. The rest of the time he stares at Melba and Rue, the two dairy cows of Wild Carrot Farm, waiting for a sign that the calves are coming.

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We'll continue to work with the Baileys in the coming weeks while we also renovate the barn for birthing (lambs, calves, and kids!), prepare the greenhouse for starts, and paint the farm house so that we can move in come this spring.



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Did anyone else notice the increasing daylight? Leaving the cozy wood stove twice a day to feed the animals seems less daunting lately now that we actually get to see their faces in the daylight!

Although everyone has been "hibernating" in their own way this winter it does not mean that we have just been sitting around enjoying the frozen and canned goodies from last season (although, there has been a lot of that as well). Jesse and Caitlin were busy just before the ground froze at Fair Winds Farm planting garlic and erecting the greenhouse that came from the land in Brookline.
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The real big excitement lately is that all of us have been learning all about draft power from the Baileys. Over a few weekends we will be seeing if we have what it takes to farm with draft power. So far it has been exhilarating, and we couldn't have started our "classes" with better energy. Last weekend when we started the board of the Draft Animal-Power Network (DAPNet) were meeting at Fair Winds Farm as well, and during our mutual breaks we had a great opportunity to meet other Northeastern farmers who are doing great things with draft animals.
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Make sure to keep a look out for the updated order forms for the 2013 season. We will be offering vegetables, raw cow and goat milk, chicken, turkey, pork, beef, and more at our future farm stand  Order forms/brochures should be available in the next week so.

More to come, stay warm!
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