The sheep range through several pastures in the summer and spend the winter in the barnyard. A small handspinner's flock of just five to 10, the annual shearing yields some highly-coveted fleeces. And the chickens provide us with plenty of eggs.
Vegetable plots
give us all the variety we want in fresh summer
foods. There has been a year-round supply of potatoes for many years.
And our long-keeping Butternut Squash (Bloomingfields Farm
Strain) is a three-season staple. (Order Squash seed.)
The life of the farm
changes from day to day all year long, yet
the permanence of its cycles and its inter-related economies assure us
of our own place in nature.
(Read more).
Spring lambs in the barnyard
