PRESS RELEASE, For more information, Contact Erin France at Midtel (emfrance<at>midtel.net), or call 518.827.5211. “A farmer walks into a telecommunications company.” It could be the start of a good joke. Instead, it was the start of a powerful partnership. “People approach us all the time,” says Jason Becker, Executive Vice President and General Manager of […]
Two Year Old Egg Salad
“Why haven’t you gone to bed yet?” Bob scolds me from the kitchen as though I were one of the kids. I should have gone to sleep two hours ago. I’m trying to understand the price of an egg salad platter. The cafe opens on this Saturday, and I need to figure out what’s going […]
The Suffering Farmer
Kate arrived in our lives like the deus ex machina from an ancient Greek play. Chaos was at the height of her fury at Sap Bush Hollow: Dad was limping through the fields, moaning from his easy chair as he fell into it each night. Mom couldn’t decide whether she despaired the endless to-do lists […]
The Responsiveness Badge
Facebook has a new “responsiveness badge.” The other business owners in my entrepreneurship night class are talking about it. To earn it, page admins must respond to 90% of messages within fifteen minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days per week. I snort at the irony. We are in this class because we are independent […]
Stone Soup
Saoirse sits at the table and watches me review the figures that Larry has presented for the final stages of the cafe. We are adding up each bit of work carefully, trying to figure out what parts of the project can go on hold until we see more cash flow, what parts are absolutely essential in […]
Life Insurance
I can’t predict the future. Does that mean I have to sell my soul? My fingers are gliding over the bindings of the books in the the stacks of the library. I have a half hour to kill before I head over to the small business management night class I’m taking. In recent months, I’ve […]
Darned Life
My favorite purple sweater is turning green. It was one of Bob’s cast-offs. It went through the laundry a few years before we were even married, and came out of a hot wash fitting me perfectly. Like most old clothing, it has far more value than my new clothing, by virtue of the fact that […]
Blog On Hold: Dreams Under Construction
This has been an amazing year. We started 2015 wondering how we could keep our farm running, how we could keep the generations together, how we could bring in the help we needed. And we fought. And we cried. And we dreamt. And you, dear readers, dreamt with us. You shared our wishes, our prayers, our ideas, […]
Thanks Giving
As my daughter grows, I can shelter her less and less from the pains of the world. But maybe by unleashing her sorrow, one more heart will be free to look for peace. “Can’t you take steps any bigger than that?” Saoirse asks as we make our way down the hill on the dogs’ morning […]
Making Neighbors
Is it possible to stay neighborly if they’re detonating explosives next door? Don’t move to Upstate New York if you can’t abide the sound of gunfire. This time of year, it reverberates across every ridge top and echoes down every valley. It blasts out from the next field over, and the next porch over. I’m […]
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