View of the Farm Dreams homepage Farm Dreams - Social Networking for Farm Geeks Like Us Ever wish you could commiserate with other farm dreamers? A place where you could find a community of existing farmers, aspiring farmers and foodies alike? Starting tomorrow (or today if you visit the...
Me and my little sister posing with cute smiles (surely in the middle of a battle!) Among my favorite wedding presents was a book my sister gave us. The book is called Milch Cows and Dairy Farming, authored by Charles Flint and printed in 1860. Charles Flint dedicated the book...
Beginning farmer Michael Robertson with his pastured laying hens in Red Hook, NY at Grady's Farm I often think about the struggles young and beginning farmers face accessing the adequate land and capital required to farm. The recently released survey Building A Future With Farmers from the National Young Farmer's Coalition...
Milk Flow in green + Work Flow in red = cheese for all at the end!As we get closer and closer to the next milestone of closing on our farm, we’ve been tailoring our to-do timeline (it’s a long one!) and sussing out what to focus our energy on next....
Jon's got a great team out at Taylor Farm, thanks for the hospitality everyone! You know you’re in VT when you show up at a small farm, immediately meet the farmer’s sister, get whisked into the family’s kitchen, across the dining room and onto the couch next to the fire....
One thing we haven’t found a lot of information about online is the operating costs of running a small, homestead farm. Instead, we’ve visited a bunch of farms, thought long and hard about what we spend money on and slowly put together our own operating expense budget. We thought it...
Soil Comparison courtesy of permaculture.org Now that's a pretty presumptive title given how little I know about soil! How about this: Understanding Your Soil - From a Distance - for Beginners. Yeah, that's more like it.
Cows Grazing at Nature's Harmony It’s hard to believe the trip to Georgia was almost six months ago. Now that fall has officially arrived springtime seems long ago and far away.
