Each Monday at Noon I'll be posting over on the Farm Dreams site as "The Aspiring Farmer". Every other weekday you'll find posts on homesteading, cheesemaking and more. Here's a glimpse at the first post. If you haven't scoped out the new site yet, go check it out! The Aspiring...
Small Farm Explosion, courtesy of www.plbg.com This question’s been posed to me by numerous existing farmers and aspiring farmers, and I think it’s a great question to ask. Any entrepreneur should contemplate those big picture questions before leaping into a new venture. My response is that we’re only at the...
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...
