Time to order your 2025 Summer and Fall CSA shares
Summer CSA begins June 2nd and runs for 22 weeks.
Fall CSA begins November 4th and runs for 4 weeks.
8-week-old Laying Chicks Available for Purchase June 16
As we usually do, we will have young layers available for you to purchase from us to take home and start, or add to your flock. They will have been in the brooder house for the first 4 weeks, and then spent their next 4 weeks on pasture. The young birds should start laying around the middle of September to the beginning of October. This year our hens will be coming from Murray McMurray and the variety is red sex links. Chicks are $25 each. To order contact Julie at 978-257-1192 or julie@mhof.net
Farming Carbon
/in Newsletter /by AmandaFebruary 17, 2025 Farming Carbon As many of you know, I am pretty excited about carbon farming – maximizing carbon uptake via photosynthesis and feeding soil life. Jack’s great paper on the topic came out in 2015 when there wasn’t yet a whole lot of digestible info on it. You can reference it here: Soil Carbon […]
Autism Prevalence Needs Explanation
/in Newsletter /by AmandaFebruary 10, 2025 Autism Prevalence Needs Explanation by Jack Kittredge Many of us are related to children with autism. A friend recommended an excellent podcast questioning that condition’s rate of increase over the last 50 years. The rate is stunning. Fifty years ago it was 1 child in 10,000. Today it is one child in […]
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/in Newsletter /by AmandaFebruary 3, 2025 Decency, Partisan thinking, and what has become of intelligent debate? I spent 6 hours this week watching and listening to the RFK, Jr. senate confirmation hearings for the role of Secretary of Health and Human Services. By the end of the Thursday session, I was pretty depressed. It seemed more like a […]