Jan 07 2024
Rare Snow Day
Daisy enjoyed what has become an unusual event: a foot of snow. She remains pretty energetic at ten years old.
welcome to the farm
Jan 07 2024
Daisy enjoyed what has become an unusual event: a foot of snow. She remains pretty energetic at ten years old.
Oct 27 2023
We had despaired of having any hay this year, given how rainy it’s been — but lo, here is some late October hay. A pair of bluebirds presided over the tedder. The round bales are handsome in the afternoon sun.
Oct 08 2023
The frost has held off, so we’ve been able to harvest plenty of peppers with which to make hot sauce. In the background you can see a colander full of Bogmere Pippins, gathered by Jen. They are tasty, if perhaps unsightly. In less cheery news, marauding deer laid waste to our new donut peach tree, […]
Jun 25 2023
Skies are blue and the grass is high – it must be summertime. Jen inspected our nano-orchard, which appears poised to produce as many as four apples this season. Rather than rely on our domestic fruit production, she set out to pick wild black raspberries. The brambles provided, ensuring we will have jam this summer.
May 26 2023
Here’s a before-and-after look at our back yard from the PondCam. I’m glad no one was using the tree swing! This is after the after picture. Sigh.
May 13 2023
This handsome Baltimore Oriole stopped by to inspect our new copper beech tree this afternoon. Presumably having found things satisfactory, it flew over to look in on one of our new sugar maples. The trees seem to be growing and healthy.
May 06 2023
Our cultivated fruit production over the years has been modest, consisting mostly of peaches from the two trees we gave Jen for Mother’s Day in 2012, one of which gave up the ghost a couple of years ago. The two Macoun apple trees we planted have never produced any apples because they are the same […]
Jan 23 2023
We had our first real snowfall of the season today. It was late in arriving, but very pretty as it came down. Here’s the view this morning from the front door of the cottage. And here’s the view this afternoon from the back door of the house.
Dec 18 2022
Sarah returned home yesterday for winter break from Colgate, after briefly being snowed in following her last final Friday. Today we were able to snag one of the nine remaining xmas trees at the Phantom Gardener, just in time for the first night of Hanukkah.
Nov 18 2022
This fir was seemed like it was near death, but in truth it looked pretty healthy as it fell. Just a week or so ago they took down the fir next to the house. It was definitely dead. We continue to try to plant more than we lose.