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Volunteer with White Oak Farm in 2011
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Fixer-uppers
In our winter lull, we’ve been tackling a lot of projects at White Oak’s home base, the common house. Our new pantry and reupholstered cushions are just the beginning – this week we decided to take on the office. There … Continue reading
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By the dozen
Did you ever see anything more beautiful in your life? A dozen fresh, glorious eggs after a winter of the brittle shells and lackluster yolks of the store-bought variety. On Monday Sarah Shea made eggs for lunch. As the eggs … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Chickens, Critters, Daily Happenings, Food, Photography
Tagged eggs, farm, free range, grass-fed, non-profit, pasture-raised
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Tumultuous Turkeys
There was some excitement this morning when a small flock of wild turkeys came to visit Tomás and the Girls. The four noisy gents hung around for about an hour, loitering outside the deer fence, ogling our three hens, and … Continue reading
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Tagged breed, farm, free range, grass-fed, heritage, pasture-raised, turkey
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Solemn Goose
We got a few inches of snow here yesterday. The farm is situated at just the right elevation so that it can be snowing here, raining at the bottom of the driveway, and clear a mile down the road. It … Continue reading
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Past Natural Building Workshop Photos
I mentioned that we’ve put up some old photos on flickr from natural building workshops that were held here at the farm (in the past 2-3 years), but it seems like they deserve their own post. Over the next few … Continue reading
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Tagged cob, earthen building, eco, green, hand-built, lightstraw clay, natural building, straw bale
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Turkeys
Here at the farm we currently have four turkeys, three Narragansett/Royal Palm cross hens, and a Bourbon Red tom.
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Tagged bourbon red, heritage breed, narragansett, royal palm
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Some Updates
As you can probably tell, we’ve been busy adding new content to the site. We’ve made quite a bit of digital headway: contributions to White Oak Farm can now be made via PayPal (tuition for workshops or our upcoming Natural … Continue reading
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Busy busy
Our work days this week were “interrupted” by a bout of snow that shook us out of our springtime glee and blanketed the farm in a classic winter wonderland. Luckily we had a few indoor tasks lined up for just … Continue reading
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Kale trees
Right out of a Dr. Seuss sketchbook.
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