Life on a Maine Coast Farm

A Melancholy Season

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I literally am astounded sometimes when I watch my does in the barn or out on pasture. No choreographer could duplicate the intricately timed dance of two animals greeting each other.

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Thanks E.B. White

This is a reposting of a blog entry from Mother Earth News, also reprinted at Resilience. A friend gave me a copy of Down East magazine back before Christmas with a page earmarked. “You’ll die laughing,” she warned me. Turns out, it was a reprint of E. B. White’s “Memorandum,” from One Man’s Meat,published in 1944. I knew of White from his story of a famous pig named Wilbur who befriended a spider named Charlotte in the children’s book Charlotte’s Web. I must have read that book 20 times over as a child. Maybe it was my first inkling toward...

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July Sucks

July Sucks

Sometimes, farming hurts.

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Farm Loss - Goodbye Ricky

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I left the pair together in the barn for the morning. Lucy wouldn’t leave his side. Animals need time to grieve too. I’ve seen this before. Then, in the afternoon, I buried him in the garden, next to their pond. She followed me out, calling for him. She’s still calling today.

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Fall in Maine

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Moving through the seasons, fall has laid it’s colorful presence over the landscape. 

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