Here's a really good idea from those darn Californians!  A recent item on "California Report" talks about a way to use social media to help reduce vegetable waste.  After our recent frost the asparagus production came to a bit of a  halt. But things are back up and running.  I don’t think we have a pallet yet– but we sure do have asparagus.

Here's the link to California Report

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The Dutch barn dominates the profile of our farm from across the road.  You can’t really tell from that angle but from the side you can see that the barn is undergoing major repairs.  The work is even more impressive when one steps over one of the new sills.  This is our biggest project yet.



In 2009 we bought “the old Getman farm” from Florence and Eleanor Getman.  The farm, 95 acres in the hamlet of East Stone Arabia in Montgomery County, New York, had been in the Getman family since th...
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The photo of our lovely and really, really busy new sheep shed is a red herring.  The real purpose of this post is to test the blog's plumbing.  We (ok Marc) changed the name of the blog web site, which we think means that nobody receives it by email anymore.

If you did not receive this by email, please go to the blog web page and enter your email address again:
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Well, if we had a sheep named Mary, there would be a very good chance that she would have a little lamb – or  two - by now.  We are in the thick of lambing for 2013.  Over 25 lambs have been born during the past five days.  Almost every ewe has had twins. So far, so good!

The sheep go outside every day now. It is pure joy to see the lambs gambolling in the grass. Come on by if you need to know that all is right with the world.

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Here's a really good idea from those darn Californians!  A recent item on "California Report" talks about a way to use social media to help reduce vegetable waste.  After our recent frost the asparagus production came to a bit of a  halt. But things are back up and running.  I don’t think we have a pallet yet– but we sure do have asparagus.

Here's the link to California Report

Continue reading ...

The Dutch barn dominates the profile of our farm from across the road.  You can’t really tell from that angle but from the side you can see that the barn is undergoing major repairs.  The work is even more impressive when one steps over one of the new sills.  This is our biggest project yet.



In 2009 we bought “the old Getman farm” from Florence and Eleanor Getman.  The farm, 95 acres in the hamlet of East Stone Arabia in Montgomery County, New York, had been in the Getman family since th...
Continue reading ...

The photo of our lovely and really, really busy new sheep shed is a red herring.  The real purpose of this post is to test the blog's plumbing.  We (ok Marc) changed the name of the blog web site, which we think means that nobody receives it by email anymore.

If you did not receive this by email, please go to the blog web page and enter your email address again:
http://www.dutchbarnfarm.com/judys-dutch-barn-farm-blog



Continue reading ...

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Well, if we had a sheep named Mary, there would be a very good chance that she would have a little lamb – or  two - by now.  We are in the thick of lambing for 2013.  Over 25 lambs have been born during the past five days.  Almost every ewe has had twins. So far, so good!

The sheep go outside every day now. It is pure joy to see the lambs gambolling in the grass. Come on by if you need to know that all is right with the world.

Continue reading ...