Hired Hands
By Garth Brown When I first moved to this farm a small cottage still stood off by itself in the pasture across the street from the dairy barn. It had...
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Rotational Grazing Hardware
By Edmund Brown Two weeks ago I mentioned rotational grazing. I thought this week perhaps it would be interesting to show all the hardware I use to keep the cows...
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Spring is Here?
By Edmund Brown With snow flakes falling as I write this sentence, it sure doesn't feel like Spring at the moment. But yesterday I got slightly sun-pinked when I took...
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I Couldn't Have Gone Far Without My Pants
By Garth Brown Alanna’s grandfather, Frank Rose, remains straight-backed and tall at ninety-two. When he knows he’s in the middle of a really good line about one of his many...
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Realistic Hope
By Garth Brown As I write this rain falls heavy on the pasture and runs down the windows, giving the yellow grass and the distant line of trees a vague...
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Catching Cold for Health
By Garth Brown As days have turned cold and nights colder, as snow has once again come to cover the land, I have returned to intentionally getting really, really cold....
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Winter Thoughts
By Garth Brown There’s a strange sort of doublethink that for me accompanies weather events. As a storm approaches my better self hopes that the forecast is wrong, that the...
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No One Knows What to Eat or How to Farm
By Garth Brown The topic of diet is particularly fraught, with strong feelings about the relative merits and demerits of certain foods or nutrients endlessly litigated. Poke around online and...
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How do I Love a Fence?
By Edmund Brown With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning - How Do I Fence Thee? Let Me Count the Ways How to fence a farm? Let me count the ways....
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Hazelnut Hubris
By Normandy Alden I would never tell you that you must own some land. Just as I would never say that you must have a garden, or bake a blueberry...
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Good Coffee, Evil Coffee
By Garth Brown Years ago I worked at Aldo’s Coffee in the coastal town of Greenport, New York. While I had developed a habit in college, it was there, that...
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Oban to the Rescue
By Garth Brown There are two big, well fenced sections of pasture on the farm, and proper grazing management requires moving the cows and sheep between them several time each...
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Where the Cattle Roam
By Garth Brown Early on the Friday of a dreary, rainy week in the dreary, rainy June of this year’s dreary, rainy spring, I looked out my window and saw...
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