Cycles abound in physical systems. Holistic farm management embraces these cycles, identifying as many ways as possible that some output of a farm process ― say, manure as the output of a farm animal’s metabolism ― may in turn be appropriated as an input of another farm process ― say, fertilizer for the growth of crops or forage. …
This is about my family, but mostly about the Dinner Table. See, my family, the one I grew up with, is small. Well, I guess it’s big, but I only knew a few folks: Mom and Dad and Seth, mostly. Dinner time, for most of growin’ up, Mom and Dad and Seth and I ate …
Farewell to all you Cricket Creek cheese lovers out there! Without your support for this farm and it’s peculiarly delicious cheeses I would’ve never had this lovely and amazing dairy to be training ground. I feel loads wiser then when I came here thanks to the incredible quality milk-as-medium that the Sabots, Mathew and Suzy gave …
If you have been to Cricket Creek farm in the past year, or if you have shopped at the Northampton, Manchester, or Troy market this year, it is likely that you have seen the friendly smiling faces of Mike & Nicole. This creative farming couple has been working with us since last March, and this …
This is a big transition time on the farm; the apprentices from the previous year are leaving and the next year of apprentices are joining us. I am excited to say that we have some incredibly focused, hard working wonderful folks joining us at Cricket Creek this year. They each have fascinating and unique stories, incredibly diverse …