Is our winter over?????

Frost heaves are beginning to be an issue as you travel over our rural roads… It is tough on vehicles hitting these “natural speed bumps”, and definitely makes you slow down just a bit!

Our  lambing season should be just about over, I may have a few more born , but what a crew we have here now! I separate them from their moms in the morning into a large pen where they can become accustomed to me moving around them and working on them as necessary , they will stay in that pen until about noontime when I  remove the gates and allow them back to their moms…. I can almost tell when noontime gets close by the noise level of mothers crying for their babies and the babies returning their calls! It can become quite a racket.

We have added a few more soups to our food list  and if you have not yet ordered your corned beef for the mid March holiday , our final delivery of corned beef is next Friday.

We are beginning to do early spring greenhouse work, cleaning benches, heating up the seedling benches and starting some woody cuttings from our pruning of last week!

I  thank you  all for your support of local foods and our excellent small Maine farms,  and here’s a photo of Ms. Violet in her St Paddy’s day finery !

25 and counting……..

Good morning All,

Twins and a single early this morning…… and here they are : 2 boys and a girl ! All healthy , robust babies and being carefully tended by their adoring moms!  25 babies now in total, these bouncing young critters make my morning, noon and night observation of the flock much more entertaining.

I travelled an hour north this weekend to receive the first  run of maple syrup for the season. Most producers will be running their evaporators early this year to take advantage of our “warmer” outdoor temperatures and reap the full bounty of this wonderful tasty natural sweetener. A full 3 weeks early this year , earlier than ever before!

Early spring start up of our greenhouse will begin late this week, benches swept, 

Cut back of herbs overwintered in the greenhouse, seed benches will begin to warm up for early vegetable seeding….it’s coming folks!

 Our usual delivery day is Friday this week,let us know how we can fill your frig and pantry!  We have a few more corned beef (3-4 pound size) available for reservation… let me know as soon as you can and thanks to all that have already reserved  their traditional holiday meal!

Grateful for this life I lead and grateful for all of you that support our local farms and local foods!

OH, WHAT A BE—EWE-TIFUL MORNING!!!!

Heading out to the high tunnel this morning, just barely sunrise and the skies were inspiring in the colors, streaks of pink and deep deep rose, it was a wonderful start to the morning, and THEN, walking into the high tunnel O…..M…. G…….. our lamb population increased over night from 8 to 14 (!!!!) lovely healthy babies, one set of twins and the rest all singles……. What a heartwarming and soul satisfy beginning to this farmers day!

My “cup” ( and lambing pens) runneth over!  I have another 10 ewes to lamb out but have never had such a bounty in one night.

Recycling is on everyones’ mind these days… how can we reduce our household consumption and waste? Well, the yankee thrifty gal in me welcomes all those empty egg cartons, canning jars and paper bags that we can reuse! It cuts  the waste on your part, we reuse what we can, paper items we  compost into the compost pile and it helps our bottom line when we can reuse those items that can have more than one life! Thank you all so very much for the returns we receive every week! New egg cartons cost about 85.cents each and I welcome the reuse of your cartons!

Corned beef in on the order sheet for Saint Patty’s Day… please place your order soon, what we have on reserve will go quickly !

Grateful for your continued support, I cannot repeat it often enough, my grateful appreciative thanks  for each and every one of you!