Book recommendations

When we're not weeding or feeding we spend our free time reading about beginner farmers, farming, and food and history.

Recipes

Here are some of my favorite recipes. Needless to say, they're all better with fresh, local ingredients.

If you're a fan of lamb then you can find a lot more recipes on the fans of lamb web site.

Browsing Archive: July, 2013

Making hay while the sun shines

Posted by Marc Kratzschmar on Monday, July 22, 2013, In : Farm Life

Farming involves a lot of looking forward and hoping. All through June we were hoping the rains would stop – and worried that they wouldn’t. On the 28^th of June the Otsquago Creek swelled, jumped its banks, and flooded the village of Fort Plain. In those days hope was hard to find amid the sadness. Here are some pictures of the devastation.

It was heartwarming to see the efforts of the neighbors going into the affected area to clean-up, but shocking to see how much damage there was. ...

Sheep. Soft-footed, black-nosed Texel sheep

Posted by Marc Kratzschmar on Thursday, July 11, 2013, In : Sheep

Well, summer’s moving on. It has been raining (a lot). The hops are growing like crazy, the fields are wet, wet, wet. Farm stress has been worrying about the Dutch Barn restoration and when to bring the hay in. But last week, we got a big ray of sunshine which just keeps shining.

In December 2012, we got a ram named Max from one of our neighbors, the Subiks at Hilltop Acres Farm. Max is a registered Texel ram. His lambs are calm, friendly, fast growing, and darn-right "meaty". We lo...