Our 2009 conference on January 9 will feature an up close look at the innovative systems of two successful farm operations. Learn more about the event.
Essex Farm will be one of the enterprises featured at the conference. The news below is excerpted from the weekly notes Essex sends to its members. Join us on January 9 to hear directly from Kristin and Mark Kimball, owners of Essex Farm.
We’re nearing the cold, dark center of the year now. The ground is close to freezing. Last chance to get fence posts in. Last chance for greens. Last year’s tilled ground is put to bed in cover crops. The horses are working today, their fur grown long, plowing new ground for next year.
There is a lot of purposeful mating going on at Essex Farm this week. The boar has arrived. He is monumental. He is a Gloucester Old Spots, with an upper lip that is lifted a little on both sides by his tusks, which makes him look like he’s half smiling. I am a little in love with him. The sows are more than a little in love with him.
At lunch today we pushed in the side table and added extra chairs to make fifteen places, and Ronnie made sirloin steaks and roasted root vegetables and carrot salad and Yorkshire pudding and an angel food cake topped with strawberry sauce.
The whole team worked to spiff up the farmyard, and put all the equipment back into the renovated pole barn. Jay is not lame and went back to work with Jack, hauling firewood from the low woods.
And that’s the news from Essex Farm.
-Kristin & Mark Kimball
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