Farming/Nature
Wind Storm Closes
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Sawdust flies as an Asplundh worker with an extension chain saw cuts the pine tree that came down on a high tension wire during an overnight wind storm.
Farming/Nature
A Rumination on Trees
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Knees quaking, I recited that famous first line, “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” penned by Joyce Kilmer and delivered at an Arbor Day school assembly some five decades ago.
Farming/Nature
Early Arrival at Hilltop
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This male red winged blackbird was photographed at Hilltop Farm.
Farming/Nature
Hydroponic Greenhouse Planned
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Four Season Farm, with a seven-acre greenhouse operation in Wallingford, may break ground this spring on a large facility in Suffield.
Farming/Nature
Won’t You Buy My Eggs?
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Robert Mueller of West Suffield tells four interested visitors about the small, multi-colored eggs his quails produce, which he was selling at the Suffield Farmers Market on January 28 in the Suffield High School Commons.
Farming/Nature
Snowbound on Phelps Road
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Perhaps this car’s owners were enjoying a sunny beach in Florida.
Farming/Nature
Rocky, But No Bullwinkle
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The cold and dark New England mornings make it challenging to spring out of bed.
Farming/Nature
See How They Run
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A family of mice have taken up residence in my potholder drawer, no doubt as a result of my lackadaisical housekeeping and drafty old hovel that I call home.
Farming/Nature
Farmers Keep Busy All Winter
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The field work is done and the crops are hopefully sold, or being consumed by livestock, but the farmers are not sitting idle.