Farming/Nature
American Goldfinch
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When we were little, my mom often told us stories about her childhood growing up in Cotton Hollow in Glastonbury.
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When we were little, my mom often told us stories about her childhood growing up in Cotton Hollow in Glastonbury.
April 13 is National Peach Cobbler Day and to celebrate, this month’s recipe is Peach Cobbler!
“They’re happy animals that live a good life here,” says Beth D’Agata, co-founder of D’Agata’s Farm, which raises cows, pigs and chickens for sale in West Suffield.
During the winter when we were kids, our house always smelled of wet wool.
More often than not when I am at Stony Brook Park, I hear the red- bellied woodpecker calling. He is a common woodpecker in these parts, but that was not always the case. As kids, we never laid eyes on one. But over the past few decades, they have expanded their range from the South to include New England, and I am glad of it. He is a handsome bird who confuses folks because he has more red on his head than his belly.
After Hilltop Farm hosted its first public event in the barn in October, along with two private weddings, inquiries about renting the facility have flooded in.
These are melancholy days on the trail. The reptiles and amphibians have hibernated.