Don’t let anyone tell you farming is boring. Farms are basically plot generating machines, taking in desire and adversity, mixing them with hopes and dreams, and spitting out story.
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Mark and I took a walk to see the dairy herd yesterday, just as the sun was sinking. The air was moving down the sugarbush hill in currents, some carrying the heat of the day, and some the cool of the evening.
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The forecast is hinting at the end of the sugaring season this week. Two more hard frosts, and then, who knows?
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This morning, I woke up to a substantial glow on the eastern horizon instead of the black of winter. Get up, it said, and get at it! The great crescendo of spring is coming.
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The first smoke and steam rolled from the new evaporator in the pavilion this week, and sixteen gallons of the good stuff came from the first two draws.
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We were lucky to sidestep the worst of the predicted storm this week. We were prepared for twelve inches of snow and some freezing rain, but got only about half of that.
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Misty freezing rain here this morning, but the roads are improving rapidly and it looks like the storm is over.
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The windchill is -22 out there at the moment and is forecast to drop to -40 overnight. The animals I’m most worried about right now are the farmers!
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Winter is the season of trying new things. Barbara Kunzi has been experimenting with our large supply of sheep and lamb tallow this week, making prototypes of candles and samples of tallow salve that we could jar and sell in the farm store.
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More up and down winter weather this week. Mud, ice, snow, rain, repeat.
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Baffling weather again this week. It rained all night, turning the hard frozen fields slick and soft.
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Fresh year, new life here in the dairy barn, and so much good news to share. First, the new life.
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The storm has passed and the weather has shifted and in the little pause after Christmas I’m sitting down to update you at last. Thanks for your patience as we have worked to figure things out after a year of change.
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The sun put on a good show for us on Thanksgiving morning, melting the snow on the surface of the soil and turning it dark again so that it seemed to drink in the warmth for the long winter ahead.
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Mark took Miranda to Mexico for his cousin’s wedding in Oaxaca City last week, a big family event and Miranda’s first international trip.
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Is it really November? Highs touching 70 degrees, lows in the 50s, little rain in the forecast? Nobody is complaining.
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Freeze coming tonight, just as we fall back to standard time and embrace the dark. Everyone is in the field today, working hard to bring in the potatoes before they get too cold.
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The rhythm of a dairy cow’s calving is usually predictable. Her udder swells, the shape of her tailhead shifts, she separates herself from the herd.
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The farm feels washed clean this morning, after 2” of rain. The maple leaves in the sugarbush are at their fiery peak, the fall grass is bright green, and the sun is due out today,
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Real color in the trees now, and several mornings of frost. The power of the sun is waning, even though the grass is still green and the big fall harvests are just starting to roll in.
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