Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category
post season friends
Posted in Animals on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News from the past
Posted in Animals, news from the past on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
September 22, 2007
Dear Farm Boxers,
Such a lovely time I had; visiting with family and
helping to prepare for and then attend my nieces’
double wedding last weekend!
Got home Monday night expecting to catch up with Ron & our son Nicholas and get to bed early because I wanted to
get to the farm early as I usually spend [...]
Simba is fond of small places…
Posted in Animals, Simba on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simba is fond of small spaces………
Portable poultry coop completed
Posted in Animals, Farm Work on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nathan’s first big project was constructing this contraption to be brought into the fields full of fowl so they can eat the grasses and weeds and fertilize the fields at the same time
Welcome to Summer!
Posted in Animals, Celebrations on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, this is the official start of summer and we’ve been busy, busy, busy down at Colchester! So busy, in fact, that we haven’t been great at updating! We’ll do our best to keep things moving along here, but we have to stay ahead of those weeds, too!
Here are a couple of pictures from the [...]
Dapple: official greeter of Colchester Neighborhood Farm
Posted in Animals, Dapple on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Driving by the barn the other day after work, Taylor saw Ron’s truck there and got out to say hi, but couldn’t find anyone. Dapple came out to greet her, though, with a hearty bray! “I was quite taken with her,” said Taylor. “She is adorable, and very, very sweet.”
Welcoming Dapple!
Posted in Animals on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Farm Boxers,
In yesterday’s cold, snowy and windy clime, we had our first arrival of 2009. Dapple the donkey came from Western Mass. She is very friendly and is looking forward to meeting all of you!
She is a 4 year old Abyssinian who we named Dapple in honor of the donkey in Miguel de Cervantes [...]
Musings on a Sunday Afternoon
Posted in Animals, Musings, Wildlife on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What do you call a group of 2 dozen wild turkeys?
…Or How I spent my Sunday afternoon
Puttering around the farm on Sunday, no other people here, just me and the goats and sheep and cows and chickens.
Sometimes I actually think I hear people voices when the air is still and everything is quiet except for [...]
