December 16, 2024 New Winds Blowing at MHOF Jack and I have been in conversation for awhile with Marissa and Drew about the possibility of them taking over the pond field garden next season, in order to launch their farming venture on some fertile soil. I have needed an excuse to cut back on production […]
December 9, 2024 Stepping It Up This past week I took my yearly sojourn to Northampton (in the middle of that awful snowstorm, none-the-less) to visit my eye doctor of 18 years, Theresa Ruggiero, who specializes in people with “special” eye concerns – in my case, albinism, crossed-eyes, non-binocular vision, and low, somewhat uncorrectable (by […]
December 2, 2024 Many Hands Organic Farm and Sustainability Center Annual Letter Dear Friends of the Many Hands Sustainability Center, This year has been our best in many ways. The wonderful weather resulted in abundant early pollination for our fruit trees, longer frost-free seasons for our vegetables, and drier fields for our pastured animals. The unplanned […]
First, I must say that this is my most favorite holiday of the year. We are blessed with around 30 Kittredges each year, and have been hosting all of them since somewhere around 1978 or so. These days Thanksgiving marks the end of the active selling here. The CSA is done after 26 weeks, the […]
November 18, 2024 It does come around each year, and though farming is so much about promoting life and then ending it, sending the pigs off to meet their maker is by far the hardest of all of the endings of life that are on my hands. Ever since I slipped in the very thick […]