We’re still alive!
Youngiee on Sep 12th 2011
We made it through the summer and are now gearing up for fall. Roger is outside currently digging our first pond, and Lily calved a couple of weeks ago. We named the bull calf Cricket as he butted his mom so much that he looked like he was hopping. Besides that, he is a very [...]
Spring 2011
Youngiee on May 16th 2011
Spring finally came for about a week and then left again, and at the risk of complaining about the weather YET AGAIN, I’ll say that this has got to be the wettest spring I have ever encountered. We also had some pretty major windstorms including one that took out our seed starting greenhouse and killed [...]
Sap Season!
Youngiee on Apr 6th 2011
Sap season is just drawing to a close…it’s been an excellent run so far. We’ve gotten more than twice the amount of syrup of our previous years (almost 7 gallons!) which is amazing. And after doing some calculations, we have concluded that we must have magic trees–normally you need 40 gallons of sap to [...]