Photo Journal: January in ten photos

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Photo Journal: January in ten photos

If January is a seed containing the full articulation of the year, the forthcoming story has been frozen solid around here. Blanketed in a perma-snow since December, we’ve scant seen the earth all month. Temperatures colder than we’ve known in years have tempered our progress on planned forestry work and infrastructure projects, and so we’ve been banging about the interior quite a bit. In the farm office, in the barns, in the house, in the recesses of our subconscious; the idea of a year has been taking shape. All we can plan for, all we can imagine, in the shape of a frozen seed.

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From the field: Plants enjoy good company

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From the field: Plants enjoy good company

Plants, like most people, enjoy good company. Everywhere in the wild they can be caught gathering and mingling about together, and on our farm it’s no different. This wild approach to farming is based in biomicry, and is wholly dependent upon strategic collaboration with the plant world…

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Beyond the Field: Edible Weeds on Farms / Northeast Farmer’s Guide to Self Growing Vegetables by Tusha Yakovleva

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Beyond the Field: Edible Weeds on Farms / Northeast Farmer’s Guide to Self Growing Vegetables by Tusha Yakovleva

Tusha Yakoleva has authored a wonderful resource guide exploring the crop value of wild plants within the cultivated landscape. The project was funded by a Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Farmer Grant, and has been made available to all for free download…

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