In Praise of Dandelions (and Support for "No-Mow May")
Here at Little Farm, late May and even into June is the high season for dandelions. Beginning mid-month, those familiar bright round...
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Joe Foran
- Apr 17
- 2 min
AND THAT'S A WRAP!
April 17, 2023 One of the joys of making maple syrup is tying oneself so closely to the seasons. You can't make syrup if you aren't...
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Joe Foran
- Apr 17
- 2 min
TWO TRAMPS IN MUDTIME
April 5, 2023 Spring in Maine is like being on a weather rollercoaster. Mark Twain put it one way when he said, ““If you don't like...
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Joe Foran
- Mar 27
- 2 min
THE MOON SHINES BRIGHT
Earlier this month, I was taking one of our puppies out for an evening stroll in our side yard and realized that a full moon had risen. ...
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Joe Foran
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Report from the Syrup Geek
This has been an interesting year for maple syrup so far. (Yes, some of us do think a lot about such things...) We have produced light...
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Joe Foran
- Mar 2
- 1 min
More like Vermont than Maine!
After a long dry spell, it has been snowing and snowing - and snowing these last weeks in the Western Maine foothills. For the past two...
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Joe Foran
- Feb 18
- 2 min
Spring in Maine
At Little Farm, three weeks ago the snow gauge in our side yard recorded 19 inches of snow on the ground, and we were enduring a weekend...
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Joe Foran
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
All the Taps are Out... Looking Forward to 2023
So, the 2022 maple syrup season has officially ended at Little Farm. Looking long-term, we see no period of well below-freezing nights...
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Joe Foran
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
NenawBozhoo and Real Maple Syrup
Though we have no written accounts detailing who invented maple syrup, we do know that Native American tribes were enjoying the sweet...
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Joe Foran
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
The Dogs of Mud Time
Mud Time is that interval here in Northern New England when the 4-6 feet of frost accumulated in the soil over the Winter abruptly thaws....
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Joe Foran
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Dry Spell...
When maple sap runs, it runs. When it doesn’t, it doesn’t. This has been a particularly intermittent Spring so far. There have been...
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Joe Foran
- Mar 13, 2022
- 1 min
Bummer!
You are using the “new look” Little Farm website. The good news; it’s much cleaner than the old. The bad news; we lost our blog history...
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Joe Foran
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Snow in mid-March
Amazing! A prolonged late-Winter thaw meant that most of our snow was gone a week ago. This morning, it was raining and 40 degrees. ...
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