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Massacre!
Ah, Summer. Lazy, sun-dappled days, marble-sized apples waving on deep green, breeze-tossed branches. Summer is finding shapes in high cumulus clouds, cookouts and creamie stands. It's watching those...
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Yesterday, I awoke to the muddled screeching of chickens (If you've ever heard a panicked hen, you know exactly what I'm talking about) looked out my bedroom window to find a FOX-- long, lean,...
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An Award! (and update)
Look here:I got this cool award from my friend Ariel over at http://arielswan.blogspot.com/Ariel is part of my writing life rather than my farming life, but she DOES have some terrific chickens (all...
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That's me. I didn't realize that blogging custom requires me to post 7 (7?) things about myself that you might not know and also pass the award along to a few other bloggers. I feel sort of silly,...
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Been away...
I'm sorry I'v neglected this blog so badly the last little bit. We went on a three week long trip (!) to Newfoundland to celebrate my better half's half century birthday.It was the longest we've been...
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Disrepair
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you've probably noticed that things have been a little.... scattered lately. The problem extends beyond blog inattention, I'm afraid. Fences need fixing, nest...
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Magical Chicken
I've mentioned the fox that's been lunching on our chickens, yes?Well, it's been pretty quiet lately, owing to our keeping all of the chickens cooped for a long stretch of the summer. All of the...
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Fall Harvest
Autumn is a beautiful time of year, but for us at Maggie's Farm, it can be a little sad. Autumn means the rattle of leaves and slick roads, snow grown thick over the pastures, the coop with a cold...
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This is the Farm... a poem
This is the farm, cozy and still, all hunkered down at the top of the hill.This is the dog who looks after the farm. She crouches and tends and keeps it from harm. This is the yard the chickens destroy...
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Eggless
Maggie's Farm takes this free-ranging thing seriously. Our 30-some chickens hang out under the porch and on the porch, in the barn and pasture, under the apple trees and, if the kids leave the van door...
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Thankful
Its been a sort of funny year, 2010. Lots of stark raving good and some pretty serious lousy too. Our family tradition is to make "Thankfulness pictures" to share before dinner, but this year they...
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Taking the Yellow Crocs on the Road
Pretty soon, we'll be packing up for our annual Pilgrimage to Pinellas County (Florida, that is).The first time we did this particular drive, our adolescent was less than two months old. THAT trip...
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Maggie of Maggie's Farm
Maggie and her SheepMaggie is 14 now, a little tottery and hard of hearing. Her hips ache and she has trouble swallowing sometimes (due to an old stick-fetching incident) but when she is outside with...
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Felted Penguin
I made this needle-felted penguin with our own Maggie's Farm wool. And here's the crazy thing: it was easy. Relaxing even. Basically, you mat dyed fleece by poking it over and over with a small barbed...
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Impending Doom in the Orchard?
This is our orchard in deep winter snow:It breaks my heart, this orchard. It's beautiful and needy and slightly rundown. We can't take care of it the way we should. Blame a lack of equipment, know-how,...
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In the Land of Poo
It's February Vacation (I believe this is a special New England Holiday, sort of a President's day/let's-not-bust-the-school-budget-on-heating-oil thing) and the kids and I have been keeping busy.We...
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Sending Off the Roos
I'm all for the new, localvore, non-industrialized, back-to-the-land type of farming. Heck I AM it-- at least on a very small scale. But it is what it is, which is to say: not pretty. Farming (even...
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A Watched Sheep...
Take a look at poor Acorn:She is sooooo totally pregnant. I've been expecting her to lamb for five days now, checking every few hours all daylong, then twice at night and waking up extra early too.And...
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Spring Flower
Well now. We are STILL waiting for poor Acorn to lamb. This is how she's looking these days:Poor thing. I mean, how much longer is this going to take????While we were keeping watch on Acorn, waking...
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Finally!
Acorn had triplets on Thursday-- two ewe lambs and a little ram! Our first ever set, a gaggle of moorit lambs. And she bore them like a pro. Her easiest lambing to date; I only had to help pull the...
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My Three Roosters
Winter's big rooster round-up is over and done with. The daffodils are out, the mint is starting to sprout in the garden (and everywhere else it can get to) and the hens are scratching fall's last...
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So Sweet!
Thanks to Kelly at Writing in the Margins, Bursting at the Seams for this lovely award. Check out her blog-- there's a lot of wisdom there.So.... quick 7 things about myself:1) We are having a fox...
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A Small Tragedy
There are lots of cool and happy things happening on Maggie's farm these days: new turkey poults in the barn, our 7 adolescent chicks orphaned but thriving, no significant sheep troubles. But we had a...
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Farm Update
Well, now that I've thoroughly bummed you all out on the last post (people seemed to down to comment, even) We're due for some cheer.There's lots of cool new life on the farm this time of year. We have...
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One-Legged Rooster
Dan and I gave the eat-your-own-meat thing a good solid try. We've raised and eaten 15 meat chickens, our pigs "the three Daves", the yearly turkey flock and quite a few sheep. And we will try again,...
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