Two women joined me last week for a workshop on the farm to discover how to release amazing color from wild meadow flowers. We walked through an overgrown meadow where wild flowers grow freely, filling our baskets full of daisies, black-eye susan, St. John’s wort, yarrow, and milkweed. During lunch, our pots brewed filling the barn with the smell of … Read More
Goats browse…..Sheep graze…. Goats eat leaves, saplings, and brambles..Sheep eat grass… Not true…Sheep eat leaves too! Anna helps the ewes reach the tasty leaves.
Some people say our farm is “in the middle of nowhere,” we like to say we are on the “edge of nowhere”. Our farm sits up on the mountain between two small Vermont villages that lie in the valley. The school bus travels our road from August to June, the UPS truck drives up our road, and the locals use … Read More
We are excited to be a sponsor at Soule Mama the past two months! Amanda shares with her readers, the joys of being a mom and homesteading through her blog. VT Grand View Farm is the featured sponsor today. Stop by Soule Mama to read about us and to enter to win a FREE night’s stay in our B&B as her … Read More
April 2014There are always lessons to learn. New Ram Lamb Standing in the barn, the cell phone set to speaker phone, we talk to the vet. I hold the ewe and my husband works to try to figure out how to put her back together. We tell the vet what has unfolded, the first time ewe lambed that morning, two … Read More
