by North Branch Farm | Jan 5, 2012 | Blog
A quick run-down of the last month and a half: -We killed three pigs and two steers for meat, and Seth shot his first buck on the last day of hunting season. Our freezers are overflowing with meat. Help us! Eat it! -Dolly, our Haflinger draft pony, became very ill...
by North Branch Farm | Nov 24, 2011 | Blog
Last week, Elsie, Chris, Minh, Ada and I all headed over to Paul Bernacky’s Wayback Farm in Belmont with 18 bushels of apples and a lot of empty buckets and came back with…CIDER! Enjoying the cider on our way out Filling buckets with cider. The whole...
by North Branch Farm | Nov 14, 2011 | Blog
This time a week ago, we were madly painting, harvesting, re-organizing, and setting up our new barrel washer in preparation for the our inaugural winter CSA pick-up for our 33 members who we support in the noble challenge of eating healthfully, locally, and...
by North Branch Farm | Nov 5, 2011 | Blog
Greetings, everyone!In the press this month, Seth and Tyler made the front page of the monthly magazine Acres USA, “The voice of eco-agriculture,” as stars of an article on the profitability of portable sawmills. You can’t read the article online,...
by North Branch Farm | Oct 15, 2011 | Blog
Happy rainy October, everyone! It’s been a busy one so far. Seth and I got married on Sunday, October 9th, and in preparation for that grand and festive event many folks from our families (most broadly defined) rallied round and helped with some serious farm...
by North Branch Farm | Sep 25, 2011 | Blog
Some photos of the farm taken from the roof of the Yentes-Quinn house, clockwise from Northeast-ish: First, the top end of the vegetable field with blueberry acre behind. Then the lower part of the vegetable field, with the fruit tree nursery in the foreground (and...
