The Good Neighbors: bed preperation

PROSPECT FARM

We are not your average farmers - if you could even call us that yet.

For some time it has been our goal to live sustainably off the land and now we are going for it! Our intention is to move towards having a household of production, not consumption through starting a multi-generation family farm providing organic vegetables, rustic breads and goat dairy for the local community. Our hope is to someday have our Vermont farm not only be a place to find quality local whole foods, but a community meeting ground to serve as an outlet for wellness, education and leisure for our neighbors.

Although we met in college, we both coincidentally grew up in the same New Hampshire area. Our studies originally focused on art and literature, which today are still huge influences to us, but we were looking for a change. Together we travelled throughout the country and have lived on both coasts, including a big city and an island in Maine. Through our experiences, we learned that we work the best as a partnership day in and day out and that our college studies are not what define us. What is most important to us is the way good “slow” food unites the ones we love.

Through this blog we hope to not only keep a log for ourselves, but also be able to share our stories and thoughts as we embark on this wild journey!

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

bed preperation

All around us farmers are tilling, fertilizing and planting 50 to 100 acres of corn and from what we have noticed it takes them about 3 days to do that chore. At times we joke about flagging down the tractors driving by to come in a take five minutes to plow our 1/6 acre – but we are holding strong. After more than a week of us removing sod without a tractor we called in some manpower. Lane’s two brothers headed up here and lucky for us they helped a couple days preparing the beds. Now we are planting! If it wasn’t certain to us before it is ingrained now that family rocks and we just want to take a second to thank Meryl’s parents and Grandma Bernice for helping make Prospect Farm begin to look like a reality. Also, thanks to Matthias and Colin Nevins for their strong muscles and keen sense of soil. It’s great to see everyone come together for us and it makes us feel really loved. Fortunately with some extra help we are able to all work hard but also play hard and still we are making moves.