What’s True and What’s Not
This week heralded the first day of summer, the summer solstice. The summer solstice is the day when the sun appears to travel its longest path th...
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The Church of Mushrooms
When most people think of going up into the woods to hunt for mushrooms they think of chanterelles, chicken of the woods, hen of the woods, morels ...
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Summer Rain
We had some pretty heavy rains at the Currant Farm last week which the new currant berries loved. They’re still green but beginning to plump up ni...
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The Promise of Soil
200 Years of Optimism As I was surveying today’s plantings in the field a short while ago, I was struck with a familiar feeling. A feeling I...
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The Chaos and Harmony of Spring
There are two defined species of the Canada goose and many subspecies. There’s a group that spend the winter around these parts and travel only as...
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The Currant Farm Oak
Elephantine Branches I last visited this Methuselah on a warm summer day a couple of years ago. I remember being struck with an almost tangi...
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Magic in the Night Woods
The Farm at Night It got me to thinking about how much I love to venture into the woods on the Currant Farm at night. When there’s snow on t...
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Poetic Stone Walls
Harbingers of Change We’ve had one of the first real winters in quite a few years here on the Currant Farm. The unblemished snow in the upper fiel...
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The Honey Bee Huddle
As the weather turns cooler and it really starts to feel like fall, we’re experiencing quite the color explosion on the farm. It’s also the last e...
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Asters in Autumn
What’s not to love about fall? The season has arrived and with it, Mother Nature has burst into a beautiful sea of color. You often hear...
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Owls and September
September has arrived kissing the Currant Farm with her cool nights and teasing us with the last few warm days of the year. I’ve always lo...
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Too Close For Comfort
There are two honey bee yards on the farm and I got a surprise one morning when I went to check on the one I can’t see from the house. As I pulled...
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A Fungus Among Us
A walk through the woods around the farm this time of year, is sure to reveal some other-worldly shaped organisms poking up from the gr...
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