Renovations all over the body of the farm and renovations on the body of the farmer. The Fall of 2017 and now into the Winter of 2018 has seen a good round of happenings on the farm. Luckily we’ve been able to get a few important things completed before the arctic temperatures set in. Carpal […]
Category Archives: Artisan Lifestyle
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Aug
Aug
Now I know why start-up businesses don’t get the chance to write as often as they’d like to, especially as the high Summer season approaches. Working as a baker at the Village Meat Market and trying to bake our own bread for the first Winter farmers markets in Westport was absolutely good practice for the […]
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Apr
Apr
People that know me, I suppose you’d call them friends and family, know that I play some music every now and then. Some music today is what I’d like to share with you (and also I guess a short story about how a library brings community together). It just so happens that I was asked […]
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Oct
Oct
I haven’t written in a while. While this is partly from being incredibly busy, learning to weld, replacing brakes and rotors on my truck with a friend to save money, getting the farm readied for Winter, the other half of the answer has been partly from a lack of motivation. It’s all part of the […]
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Feb
Feb
(Featured photo credit: Marcelo Graciolli) Right now I’m listening to NCPR on the radio. I have no TV and use the Internet mostly when I’m near a public WiFi spot in town, like my library. I used to be online and connected 24/7. I was hardwired in to what I thought I was supposed to […]
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Dec
Dec
Fund raising for our recent micro-loan campaign on Kiva Zip was nerve-racking and exciting at the same time. In comparison to the work we now have ahead of us, the fund raising now seems the easy part. In order to have enough “dough” to start paying back our Kiva Zip loan, we “knead” (sorry!) our […]
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Dec
Dec
Money… No matter how you feel about it, it is a necessary asset in bringing an old farm back to life. But when I received a call from Lauryn at Kiva Zip, I was exposed to the power of social finance and it’s exciting possibilities. Finding “dough” to build a bread oven Our first […]
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Oct
Oct
It was an evening in September that marked a special event in the night’s sky. Something we won’t have the opportunity to see again for another 18 years. Coming next in 2033, a super harvest moon will again combine with a lunar eclipse On the 27th, we were transfixed and glued to the sky. Some […]