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There are two farms in my life: one, whose orchard is managed by my husband, one of the top sustainable farmers in America, and a second farm, our homestead two miles down the road.
Growing your own food, even during this past drought season, leads to eating rich during hard, economic times. But we eat at a gourmet level by growing much of our own food: chicken, lamb, pork, turkey for Thanksgiving, and Christmas goose. These humanely raised meats are combined with a myriad of vegetables and herbs from the garden.
Our modest homestead is comprised of a 200-year-old farmhouse with an Old English-style barn and vintage '50s sugarhouse. The sugarhouse houses two dozen laying chickens, and the barn - restored last year through a Vermont Historic Preservation matching grant - houses 15 sheep, a guard llama, five geese, two guinea hens to keep the tick population at bay, and an additional 30 chickens in a coop my stepson built for me. Our three pigs live behind the house since the barn was a construction-site last year, and we haven't moved them back to the barnyard.
Neighbors say they miss seeing the pigs in the barnyard, which stretches along a winding dirt road used by hikers, joggers, bicyclists, and horseback riders.
