Winthrop, our ram, is huge. He’s taller than I am when standing on four feet (Winthrop's  four feet) – probably 48” at the shoulder...

A drainage ditch bisects our property. It was dug many years ago to drain the east fields. I think of drainage ditches as long barren g...

Photo by Jenny Ellison The day before Easter we pulled the taps from the maple trees, washed the cans we collected sap in and th...

It has been a strange spring. The sap hasn't run well. We'll have a day of almost perfect weather (nights below freezing and days in...

Three green went down in early February. In   farmer speak, “went down” means that the animal lay down and wouldn’t get up as opposed...

“I didn’t know that sheep had personalities,” a friend said. “I thought they were just white blobs on a hill.” Most people think of shee...

Shengifr Shengifr, (pronounced Shengif, the “r”   is silent- he was named by 2 year old grandson Jasper) is our bellwether. A bell...