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.

Twin Lambs

Twin lambs born.

Guinea Eggs

Guinea hens are beginning to lay eggs. They're the very orange yolks in the picture.

Guineas -- a more wild fowl relative to chicken.

Ducklings

Ducklings begin to hatch.

Carpentry Workshop

Mike Spitzer shows us basics of carpentry during our “Intro to Carpentry and Bluebirds” workshop.

Jasper

The underbelly of Jasper's (the bulldog) face.

Dom Bday Dinner

Jesse cooked a special meal of rabbit for Dom's birthday (a day early).

Colostrum Milk

First few milkings release colostrum, a form of milk that is essential for the newborn. This is milk from right about when the colostrum (yellow and brown) has run out and normal milk is being produced.

Suntanning Pigs

Enjoying one of the first really beautiful days.

Milking Bre

Milking Bre for the first time the day after calf was born. Tail stayed up the whole time -- still recovering from the childbirth.

Bre's calf born!

Bre gives birth a few days early. Her first calf.

Rolling Pancetta

Taking the pancetta out of the cure.

Rolling the pancetta.

Tying the pancetta.

Hanging the pancetta in the basement to dry.

Easter Dinner @ Lynda's

Lynda runs a wonderful place called The Inn at Sweet Water Farm. An amazing cook who uses many local ingredients, she invited us over for Easter Dinner. We're playing a game with boiled eggs.

Testa In Cassetta - Cut

After cooling down, the sausage is cut to reveal a beautiful cross section.

Burying leftovers

The pig heads from the headcheese have to buried because they won't compost readily.

Feeding Highlands

A breakfast of hay.

Testa In Cassetta

Pig heads for making testa in cassetta (headcheese).

Boiling the heads.

Pulling the meat off.

Spicing the mixture and adding carrots and pistachio.

Filling the casing.