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Category Archives: Farming
Garden adventure
On Saturday, a friend and I went on a garden tour in what I’d call a rural/bedroom community. Their population is around 10,000. We saw a variety of beautiful gardens, traveled dirt roads, hiked through the woods between a couple … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Gardening
Tagged Chickens, Dahlia, Farming, Garden sculptures, Garden Tour, Gardening, Rock Gardens, Tree Fort
50 Comments
Thursday Doors
This weathered barn door is in Landaff – White Mountains of New Hampshire. To the person driving by on RFD#1, it looks like a lot of other barn doors in the area – old and in need of repair. This … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, New England, Thursday Doors
Tagged Farming, Grandparents, Landaff, New Hampshire, Photography, Thursday Doors, White Mountains
32 Comments
Wordless Wednesday – Farm Celebrity
Posted in Farming
Tagged Farming, French Angora Rabbit, Herbert Menninger, Pet bunny, Pet rabbit
10 Comments
Winner of Chicken Tote Drawing
Drum roll! The winner of the Chicken Tote was #20 – L. Bryant who has 32 chickens of her own. Congratulations! Thanks to everyone who participated in the giveaway. If you have a moment in your busy day today, we’d … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Farming
Tagged 1840 Farm, Bantams, Brookside Farm, Building a Chicken Coop, Chicken Coop, Chicken coop run, Chickens, Coiled Fabric Egg Baskets, Egg baskets, Egg Baskets 1840 Farm, Egg Baskets 1840 Farm Etsy, Family farm, Hobby Farm Magazines, New Hampshire farmer, Popular Farming, Popular Farming: Chickens
5 Comments
Maple Syrup
We make maple syrup. Why? Well, it is a fun learning experience for the grandkids, and our family is very concerned about the source of our food supply. We keep hens so we know where our eggs come from, we … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Farming
Tagged French Angora Rabbits, Gardening, Heritage Breed Hens, Maple Museum, Maple Sugar, Maple Syrup, Michael Pollan, Monticello, New England, New Hampshire, Nigerian dwarf goats, Pure Maple Syrup, Sap, Sugar houses, Sugarhouse, Sugaring, Tap My Trees, Tapping trees
19 Comments
All things chicken drawing
I remember the fun I had spending a large part of my youth at my grandparents’ New Hampshire farm, Brookside Farm. They had dairy cows, chickens, sometimes a pig or two for meat or a couple of ducks, a huge … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Farming
Tagged 1840 Farm, Bantams, Brookside Farm, Building a Chicken Coop, Chicken Coop, Chicken coop run, Chickens, Coiled Fabric Egg Baskets, Egg baskets, Egg Baskets 1840 Farm, Egg Baskets 1840 Farm Etsy, Family farm, Hobby Farm Magazines, New Hampshire farmer, Popular Farming, Popular Farming: Chickens
32 Comments
Chicken Coop
I cleaned the chicken coop this morning. Now, there may be some of you thinking – yuck, I don’t want to do that any time soon. Well, let me say I might have had that opinion in the past as … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Chicken coop cleaning, Chickens, Cleaning the coop, Compost, Keeping chickens, Nokero, Nokero Solar Lights
15 Comments
Farm hop
We took a road trip yesterday from our 1840 Farm north to Walker Farm, Bristol, New Hampshire. The Walker Farm is a wonderful example of a family farm providing fresh, locally grown food and some good family entertainment for their … Continue reading
Posted in Day Trips, Farming, Traveling
Tagged 1840 Farm, Alexandria NH, Bristol NH, Fall, Farm, Farmall tractor, Farming, Gardening, Maple sugar candy, Maple trees, No Farms No Food, Petting zoo, Pumpkins, Tomatoes, Walker Farm
17 Comments