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...
Truly free-range chicken enjoying the pasture Does Your Local, Free-Range Turkey Taste Better? When it comes to “alternative” food production, such as organic and local, there’s plenty of skepticism. Recently, I’ve heard a lot people asking whether the food tastes better. Whenever the origins of a free-range Thanksgiving turkey...
Not to the farm, unfortunately. After filling up on turkey we spent the weekend moving to a new apartment. Our lease ends at the end of November, so that put us in a precarious situation. We're about to own a farm about 1,000 miles away, but that’s no help! We...
Turkeys tell us how they really feel about Thanksgiving
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...
The vegetable fields at our CSA group's farm, Garden of Eve on Long Island in NY Our CSA ended its summer season last weekend and it made me think of how much has happened since we first started sourcing our food intentionally. Our farm dream was largely influenced by our...
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....
