Eclipse Chicken
“I need to find a tempting treat for a chicken,” Ula says aloud to no one in particular one afternoon this past winter while she distracts herself from writing one of her college essays. She has plans with her boyfriend for the weekend, so she really needs to get her work done. But her mind […]
(Trying not to be) An Angry Farmer
This story first appeared on the Sap Bush Hollow Farm website on April 2nd. Jean-Michel Sibelle and his wife Maria are selling their farm in France. It has been in their family for over a century. I don’t know Jean-Michel and Maria. But my stomach churns as I read about them in the NY Times in a […]
Sap Bush Cafe has a new home on the web!
Sap Bush Cafe is now open for the season, every Saturday, 9-2 through the last Saturday before Thanksgiving. We are now posting the weekly specials over on a special page dedicated exclusively to cafe event over on the farm website. Find it here: www.SapBushFarmStore.com/Cafe.
Feed
Photo courtesy of Jasper Gribble, Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@jaspergribble The email query from last week keeps swishing around my brain. A customer wrote to ask for all the ingredients of our livestock feed. She was looking for chicken that had been fed no corn or soy. The feed had to be processed in a mill where there was […]
Windows
“Homelessness. I think it’s a big problem. But is it one we want to tackle?”* The question appears on the front page of the March 7th issue of the Times Journal, our local newspaper. It was asked by a Lieutenant-in-Charge at a nearby village meeting convened to discuss a proposed affordable housing project at our […]