Sunday Review 3/28/21

It’s been a busy Winter full of trailblazing, snowshoeing, and plowing but we have a lot of great things to look forward to this Spring!

We’ve spent a significant amount of time clearing and improving the field trails that were started last summer and are excited to continue using them as the weather gets warmer.

This month we’ve also welcomed a few new baby faces at the barn, with a new Brown Swiss as the latest addition. Next, we’re gearing up for the arrival of some baby goats- a set of twins and triplets due in April.

Finally, the surest sign of spring appeared this week with our first few compost customers. You can now find our red bags roadside once again.

Sunday Review 10/25/20

It’s almost Halloween! We’re so excited our “Haunted” trail was able to get so much use this year! We had a few more friends and family members stop by to check it out. 

We’ve also sold through all of our pumpkins for this fall. After such a tough year it’s good to know that people are trying to celebrate as much as they can.

We also welcomed a brand new baby calf, G.

Sunday Review 9/20/20

This was a sad week as we had to say goodbye to our beloved farm cat, Tibby. She has been ruling the farm for the past 16 years! She held many roles including farm greeter, watchcat, mouse chaser, milk tester, and farm kitten foster mom. 

She was born on the farm and originally named “Tux” due to her markings. But we decided she needed a more feminine name and since Aryn had just finished reading Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, she picked the name Tibby after one of the book characters. While we’ve had many cats stroll across the farmyard without really knowing exactly where they’re coming from, Tibby was a true constant for the past decade and a half and we’ll certainly miss having her around. 

It was also a little sad to have to say goodbye to summer. The weather took a pretty dramatic shift this week and plunged us into the 40’s but it is exciting to watch the seasons change on the farm and we are working hard to get into pumpkin mode. We were also able to take advantage of the temperate weather to fix up more of our field trails- this time adding a culvert

Sunday Review 9/6/20

What an exciting week! One of our favorite cows, Caterpillar, welcomed a new baby girl into the world on September 1. We named her CoCo and we’re so excited to have a fall baby calf. 

We also finally, truly finished all of our second crop work in the fields. This gave us more time to continue work on our various painting projects before the weather gets too cold. 

Despite the drought conditions earlier in the summer, we’re happy to report that we do still see some life in the pumpkin patch! We even spotted at least one orange pumpkin continuing to ripen on the vine. Hopefully we’ll have quite a few more by the end of the month.

Sunday Review 8/30/20

This time of year is typically when we’re traveling around the state to attend and participate in cattle shows. Since this year is unlike any other, this weekend was our first opportunity to do so (on a very small scale). We supported the local 4-H club during their practice show at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. The small gathering followed all COVID guidelines and finally allowed the 4-Hers to demonstrate their hard work from the past 11+ months. 

Here at the farm we spent more time working on our trails and we were even able to construct another bridge! 

Our painting project from last week is still in progress and we’ve finished the initial coat on the barn. While there’s still lots to do, it’s so nice to see what just a little paint can do. We also took in a little inspiration when we visited our neighbors at The Barn at Autumn Lane for their Farm-to-Table dinner.

Sunday Review 8/23/20

Earlier this week, the Press Herald reported that Maine was officially experiencing drought conditions. Fortunately we had a little bit of rain on Saturday to ease us into a somewhat relaxing but very productive end of the week. We’re finally nearly done with the second crop hay. 

Earlier this week Glisten got a little too excited in the barn and scratched up her face a bit. Thankfully we are fortunate to have a talented veterinarian who was able to come over and fix her up right away.  She’s been recovering well and has been enjoying her darth vader eye mask to keep the flies from bothering her. 

Our back side of the barn continues to get updated now that we’ve started painting the field-side portion. A few rain showers kept us from finishing up the entire side but we’re making progress! 

Sunday Review 8/16/20

This drought-like weather has allowed us to keep making progress with our farmyard upkeep this summer. Aside from haying and painting the barns, we’ve continued work on our trail by bush hogging and have even spotted our first garden pumpkin! 

The mid-August sunsets are not disappointing this week!

Sunday Review 8/9/20

We had a busy weekend welcoming some special visitors to the farm, including a new sixth generation member of our farm family! He had so much fun exploring the fields and meeting the cows and goats!