Animals on pasture

Sheep

Lambs

Oxen

Dairy Cows

Guest Milking

SueAnn milking Bre

Cultivating Tool

Rhubarb

Weeded out the rhubarb bed, to prepare for woodchip mulching.

More Field Garden

More planting.

Midday in the Greenhouse

Out in the Field Garden

Weather finally permitting, the huge push to get plants into the ground begins -- onions, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, peas, and beans.

Broccoli, cabbage, and lettuce seedlings.

Bre Splat!

Just after being moved onto pasture, Bre is producing very watery poo since she is eating lots of juicy grass.

Jasper + Rex

Seed Potatoes

Seed potato left to dry up a little before planting.

Bacon

Bacon just out of our smokehouse.

Ralph + Cory

Cory and Ralph visiting for a weekend. Ralph, the arborist, doing a little work on our trees.

Kale Flowering

Letting the kale go to seed.

Lynda

Lovely Lynda visiting the farm.

Stinging Nettle

For dinner -- pork chops, stewed apples, and sauteed stinging nettles which tasted amazing.

Lamb check-up

Docking tails and ear tagging the newest lambs. Checking for castrability.

Burdock Root (Gobo)

Digging up burdock root from the pig yard.

...a vegetable root known as gobo by the Japanese.

Dom's "kinpira gobo"

Horseradish

Horseradish, transplanted into one bed

Motherwort + Catmint

Growing everywhere

Baby Goats on Pasture

They're getting bigger and more unmanageable. Feeding them is a nightmare.

Chicks

Barred Rock chick (to be raised as a broiler)

Speckled Sussex chick (to be raised as a layer)

Wild Carrot

Queen Anne's Lace

Souffle

Dom baked a wonderful chestnut souffle with duck eggs.

Turnip Transplant

Preparing the bed for turnip transplants.

Turnip seedlings.

Turnips in the ground.

Thru-Hikers

First thru-hikers -- trail names, Jolly Roger and Bear Bait -- of the season. Throughout the summer, Appalachian Trail hikers stop for a day for three square meals in exchange for a little farm work.

Cows

A rainbow of milking cows.

Rex

Rex

Julien

Julien is a student at Simon's Rock College and volunteers here twice a week. His passion is mushrooms.

Seedlings

Seedlings growing in apprentices' rooms.

Some pepper plants.

Ducklings (continued)

Newborn duckling.

Mimolette

Bre's calf, "Mimi" for short.