This is a real transition time of year. New crops are just barely coming along as the greenhouses warm up for the early season. This is when I really am confronted with the work that is yet to be done with this new food model. Bridging the seasons is the Holy Grail of eating locally. [...]
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Making the Grade with Square Deal Farm
Steam billows from under eaves and out sugar house roof top chimneys. The smell of the earth thawing blends with the smell of wood fires burning to heat evaporators. Inside, maple sap churns and boils under watchful eyes as it’s transformed into a golden liquid. It’s a wonderful and familiar scene up here this week. [...]
A Taste of History
We’d like to share an article that came to us from our friends at Vermont Salumi. Published in 1835 on the pages of the Boston Commercial Gazette, the story – eloquently written in prose of the era – tells of a small mob breaking out in the Boston market clamoring for high quality sausage that a, “plain [...]
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Welcoming the Snow
We hope you are all snug and warm taking this snowy weekend in hibernation mode. It was fun driving back in the truck last night (Thursday) with a full hyway of cars from Boston and points south with skis strapped to the roof and obvious excitment at the day off and beatiful new snow. This [...]
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Deep Winter, Eggs, and Greens
The cold weather of the last few weeks really took a toll on the laying hens’ eggs. Last week we only got 25% of your egg needs filled so if you didn’t get eggs this week we hope to be able to get you some next week. Severe cold can really affect animals that are [...]
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