Johanna Gardner is the proprietor of Trollhaugen Farm. Her dispatch from the farm recounting the ups and downs of lambing season appeared in these pages in 2022.
Feb. 9: At 4:30 a.m., I swear I hear a pounding on the door. There must be a lamb coming or a ewe stuck in labor. I run down the stairs, expecting to see April, our farmhand, but no one is at the door. OK, so I imagined all...
Those of us who are lucky to grow up in the country learn a lot just from looking at what goes on around us in the garden and on the farm. If you grew up in the '60s, you probably burned your trash out in a bin, but at...