“There’s a car for sale on the way down to school,” Ula reports one afternoon as she walks in the door, “I think we could afford it.” She started taking classes down at SUNY Cobleskill last year, and she’s been driving down there a couple days each week through the summer to take a riding […]
Who gets the land?
We called it berryin’. The landowners might have called it trespassin’. What they didn’t know didn’t hurt them. They got to own the property and pay the taxes and say what was theirs. Sanford and I got blueberry pie, blackberry pie, raspberry pie. And lots of jam. The summer I was 15, Sanford was 83. […]
Inner Piece of My Mind
By the time you get this, it is quite possible that I will have vibrated into a higher plane of existence. I would imagine that my body would still be in this plane, but there’s a chance I will have achieved such a state of enlightenment that you might notice a golden glow around me, […]
That Ol’ Cloak of Shame Again
“I’ve seen an odd ant as weather warms up, but this guy makes the place out to be a temple of doom,” Kyle tells me. Kyle works on the farm and oversees Tibbets house, the old center hall with the field stone foundation across the street. The Airbnb guest never spoke with us once. […]
Stop Scrolling & Listen Up! Let’s talk about farming and vaccination.
This piece, written by Shannon, originally appeared as a story at SapBushFarmStore.com. “Do you vaccinate your animals?” The call comes in as I’m getting ready for bed early last week. “We vaccinate the sheep,” I tell the caller. “They get a C, D & T vaccine, for Clostridium Perfigens type C & D, and Tetanus.” […]
In My Expert Opinion
Photo by Growtika on Unsplash It sounded like such a sweet gig. I’d have to take a few days off from the farm, but I’d get to travel to the Pacific Northwest where I’d advise for a living history project about meat production and cooking during the Pioneer days. “So we just need you […]
Worth Remembering
“Think over your life,” Xavi said, a Marlboro perched between two fingers of one hand while the other used a demitasse spoon to stir so many sugars into espresso that it had become a syrup. I sat across from him at a sidewalk cafe in Barcelona thirty years ago, sipping my cappuccino in awe. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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