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Jenn Colby


Free Regenerative Agriculture Movie Screening This
Free Regenerative Agriculture Movie Screening This Weekend!

Sunset over the pig shed…❤️ #foodfamilyandfa
Sunset over the pig shed...❤️ #foodfamilyandfarm

Badger badger badger. 😬#foodfamilyandfarm #kata
Badger badger badger. 😬#foodfamilyandfarm #katadhinsheep #spotsfordays

I sorta feel like there’s a band name here…any
I sorta feel like there’s a band name here...any suggestions? #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt #katahdinsheep #bandname

To follow up our recent sausage making note, I tho
To follow up our recent sausage making note, I thought I’d post this. Homemade sausage from our @hwfarmvt pigs, made by @foodfamilyandfarm served with arugula from @pebblebrookfarm . Best lunch ever. Mmmmm. #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt

Tell Me About Your Level of Pork Interest 🐖 Pla
Tell Me About Your Level of Pork Interest 🐖 Planning, planning...pigs in stock and more on the way. If you are one of our existing customers, or maybe an interested prospective customer, zip me a line! It's easier to serve your needs if we talk!

There’s grass under there…#foodfamilyandfarm
There’s grass under there...#foodfamilyandfarm

Most of my sheep systems are pretty simple and ste
Most of my sheep systems are pretty simple and steady, but the annual excitement comes at weaning time (usually there are ear tag upgrades and weighing to go along, although I elected not to weigh this year as I was sorting without a team), and at reintegration time a few weeks later. This morning started in fog and shadow, but by mid day the ewe lambs were happily back with the yearlings and moms, and the ram lambs were taking a truck ride down to meet the big rams. An added bonus was their proximity of grazing pasture to the pigs; we really are a diversified farm and I find it super funny to watch the pigs watching sheep. The sheep, nonplussed as always, went straight for the grass. Naturally. #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt #regenerativeagriculture #vermont #vermontbyvermonters #rootedinvermont

Looks like the leaves are starting to turn just in
Looks like the leaves are starting to turn just in time for the weaned lambs to rejoin their moms and finish out the grazing season together. #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt #katahdinsheep

Up by the yurt, there’s a bounty of life. I have
Up by the yurt, there’s a bounty of life. I have the ewes at the top grazing on hay to improve the soil, and there’s a family of turkeys hanging about. The sheep love watching the turkeys and the turkeys love digging through sheep pellets. Everybody wins! #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt #howlingwolffarmstay

Endings and Beginnings: The Cycles of Life 🌻


Endings and Beginnings: The Cycles of Life 🌻 I've been thinking quite a bit lately about endings, and beginnings. The cycle of summer becoming fall sort of does that to me every year, even though my son is all grown up. Somehow once you're in the habit of the school year, it sticks with you for life. On any farm, but especially a livestock farm, we think about endings and beginnings a whole lot. Beginnings are easy when new piglets come or lambs are born. They're all cute and perky. Everything feels full of the promise of life and sunny days. We don't necessarily want to think about rain, cold, or what happens at the end of the summer. When we think about endings, we often feel sad but the truth is that this is a never-ending circle we are describing. The end of one season is the beginning of another vibrant, if different, one. Summer's sunflowers give way to fall's leaf color. The mouse that feeds the fox also feeds the fox's young. The blueberries we were slow in picking this year(!) fed the song birds, who fed the hawks flying over the pastures. The ending of the life of sheep or pigs at our farm means the filling of a freezer for you. A new friend of the farm found us on the web because of my blog post about not feeling guilty about eating meat. We embrace this cycle of life every day; by being part of our farm, you are part of nature's cycles too. I hope you find it as humbling and awe-inspiring as I do! What will you do with your new beginning? We hope you share the bounty with your family. We hope you take a meal to a person you care about (especially one who could use some nutrient-dense food!). We hope that you take a few minutes to be grateful that the end of another life can sustain yours. Sure does help the day to start with gratitude and love. Thank you for being part of our farm--we are grateful to be able to share these cycles with you! Jenn


Quick quiz: would you select the ram on the left (
Quick quiz: would you select the ram on the left (Bruchlaidh) or the ram on the right (Dawson) for breeding? If you would choose one over the other, what makes you say that? #katahdinsheep #foodfamilyandfarm

Self-seeded sunflowers are the most precious gift!
Self-seeded sunflowers are the most precious gift! And they attracting the coolest yellow birds and yellow butterflies. Yay for pollinators and biodiversity! #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt

That was quite a rainstorm Tuesday!
That was quite a rainstorm Tuesday!

Happy Fourth Farmiversary to us! Also, nice chunky
Happy Fourth Farmiversary to us! Also, nice chunky lambs this year, and good grazers. 👍🏼💪🏼🤗 #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt #katahdinsheep


Whenever I wonder if I’m in the right place, I’ll think of this. ❤️🌈 #foodfamilyandfarm #howlingwolffarmstay #randolphvt

When the cowboy boots and hats come out (even in V
When the cowboy boots and hats come out (even in Vermont!)you know it must be a #ranching4profit Summer EL meeting! Thanks for hosting @maplewindfarm ! ❤️

Choosing Joy Every Day 💞 The last few months ha
Choosing Joy Every Day 💞 The last few months have been eye opening, on pretty much every level possible. You might be feeling a bit overwhelmed. I know that I am. It feels important to acknowledge this. I read lots of emails from success coaches and trainers and business builders and farmer types and various others. Many have just kept sending emails as if things weren’t challenging and unprecedented out there. As if we could ignore the world and just keep moving forward. We can’t ignore the world. We shouldn’t. I hope that you are taking the time to pause and accept that this is a tough moment in time for us all. People are hurting, and people are scared. People are marching and people are dying. The world is changing—has changed—and it’s important to take the time to stop and notice. Whew. Let’s take a breath together. Again. Whew. We can choose to act out of love or fear. We choose LOVE. Love and Joy are what we stand for.

I will totally admit that grazing the back side of
I will totally admit that grazing the back side of the farm is tough on the ewes, especially at this stage in the nursing-lambs game. There isn’t a lot of high-quality forage, or sunlight. I do my best to keep them moving 1-2 times a day, so they can just take the best of a poor set of options. But then...we swing around to the area near the shed and house...where the soils are deeper and flatter, and the orchardgrass and clovers are thick. It energizes my heart to see their bellies full and watch them flop down under the shade of the young locust. ❤️ Some day my goal is for the whole farm to express this level of health and forage production, but for now I’ll just happily save it as a reward for moms and lambs after hard work doing what they do well; eating and sleeping and leaving manure to grow more of that healthy soil we treasure so much. Makes for a nice view out my office door, too. #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt #katahdinsheep #ranching4profit #nofilter

I love it when this is the sight from my office. #
I love it when this is the sight from my office. #foodfamilyandfarm #randolphvt


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