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February 2020

Freezing night time temperatures and warm daytime temperatures signal the magic that is sugaring season. We tapped the sugar maples that surround our sugar house, and are busy collecting sap and boiling it down.

We set up a solar panel, battery bank and inverter for our electric fence at Hill-Stead. For the 15 years we have had sheep at Hill-Stead, we have had to swap out new batteries, daily, bringing the old batteries home to recharge. Not anymore!!! After a few minor tweaks, t

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Winter is perfect for fixing miles of fencing (on 3 different properties) - and for cutting, splitting and hauling, firewood!

We also splurged and bought a brand new livestock trailer. Over the years we have had 3 pigs escape from our old trailer. One was on our farm, which was annoying but basically inconsequential, and 2 escapes were at the abattoir, which -both times - was enough to make me want to get out of the pig business for ever.

I will never forget trying to retrieve a 600 pound pig

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December 2019

We spent most of December fencing and preparing for various Holiday sales events.

The power company trimmed trees along the power lines this summer and we asked them to deliver all the 16 foot length logs to our property, so again this year we cut and split 10 cords of wood. We heat our house primarily with wood and so far this year, we have only used 4 gallons of oil! 

November 2019 was spent, recovering from October, and collecting several tons of pumpkins from a couple local

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