Annual Visit from Japanese Students
/Tohoku University of Art & Design (TUAD) in Japan sends students each year to install a contemporary art exhibit at the Boston Children’s Museum led by their Professor, Minatsu Agriga. Cobb Hill has become part of their yearly experience and we welcomed 12 students and two faculty to Cobb Hill on March 9th. Their weekend stay at Cobb Hill included home stays with families on the Hill, a lecture from Coleen O’Connell on Ecology and Community, and a lecture by Phil Rice on the maple syrup process. Coleen also conducted a Nature Printing workshop with the students. As is their tradition, on Sunday they cooked a Japanese feast for the Cobb Hill Community. The time is always too short, but great memories were made.
Gearing up for Mushroom Inoculation 2019
/Photos from last year’s sessions in April. Want to join this year? April 6th, 13th, and 28th.
Cedar Mountain Farm Featured in Water Quality Video
/“Across the Fence” video episode by UVM Extension
Learn about the Connecticut River watershed and hear from our very own Kerry Gawalt on the projects they’ve been doing on the farm here, thanks in part to funding from NRCS.
New Thinking for a New Year
/Op-Ed piece in U.S. News and World Report by Beth Sawin and Nathaniel Smith:
New Thinking for a New Year
“2018 has been full of grim climate news. 2019 could be the year cities turn this around.”
Wonderful cookie swap
/A delicious assortment, with boxes going to Meals on Wheels this year, coordinated by the Hartland 4H. Thank you, everyone, for baking dozens and dozens of cookies!! Happy holidays!
Introducing the Gadzukes
/A ukulele group has formed at Cobb Hill! Several of us - a surprising number, really - have formed a nascent band, the Gadzukes. Who knew there was such interest in ukulele on the hill!? Five to eight of us get together to practice and rehearse - Bob Marley songs to holiday music. Our first show is coming up next weekend at the annual cookie swap - four festive tunes. As we near the solstice and the depths of winter, making music together lifts our spirits.
Twin Calves!
/Twin heifers - Clara and Celestine - were born yesterday, December 11th 2018, to Daisy. Twins are fairly rare: 1 in 100 in the industry, and even less at Cedar Mountain Farm (0.6%)!
They were two days overdue and both needed help with delivery. Kerry assisted, as Celestine was a breech and Clara had her head twisted back. She was pushed back in and had her head aligned with her legs before delivery. The wall of the uterus is paper thin, so extreme care is required in assisted deliveries. Breech calves have a higher still birth rate due to the cord tearing early or being compressed. Needless to say, everyone is happy and healthy. The new calves received plenty of attention today by the 4H students, who can tell them apart by their heads and the fact that one has a silky smooth coat and the other is rougher.
All in a day's work
/Planting, cooking, growing, singing on a Friday
