GILFORD — The 38th Annual Island Clean-up Day is scheduled for Saturday, July 26, for island residents of Gilford, where Department of Public Works staff will accept appliances, bagged leaves, furniture, brush and clean wood cut in 3-foot chunks.
GILFORD — Stay informed about local island life this summer by attending the 2025 Summer Meeting hosted by the Gilford Islands Association and learn about loons, aquatic life and more on Monday, July 28.
After 20 years raising cattle, you'd think I'd be unaffected by June, the cow who walks over looking for scratches, or Tazzy, the mini-pig grunting for dinner. But despite the years, the critters still pull on my heartstrings. I melt when Venus, one of my Belted Galloway calves, looks at me …
Twenty years ago, I was a vegetarian. Now I eat meat, but not just any meat. Unless I know the beef was raised on the right kind of farm, I’ll go vegetarian.
WOLFEBORO — New Hampshire Boat Museum will host Lake Discovery Family Days on Thursdays, July 27 and Aug. 4, a free program in which kids can engage in a variety of interactive, boat-related activities themed around lake ecology, arts and crafts and games.
The yearlings crowded around the pan, butting each other for the best spot. You’d think the pan contained yummy grain, but I had filled it with coarse red granules of minerals instead. Cattle, just like humans, need minerals to survive, and the yearling herd had been without salt for a few days.
The kids stowed their backpacks, ran into the barnyard, and waited anxiously to learn which calf would be theirs for the week. Would it be Peaches, a sweet white Scottish Highland calf, or Claudette, a fuzzy Belted Galloway heifer, who looked like an Oreo cookie? Who would get Jerome, a relu…
Every myth has at least a grain of truth. It doesn’t matter how small that truth might be; it gives life to the bigger myth. Here’s one I hear from almost every visitor to the farm. “Don’t stand behind a horse. You’ll get kicked.”
The 1957 Sears Christmas Book offers a pony — not a little girl’s toy — a living pony. Carole hunts for the page with his picture. The accompanying text says the pony will be shipped in a crate, which doesn’t seem strange, but the price does. The pony costs $179. She’s never seen that kind o…
The bellowing in the holding pen stopped as I walked across the barnyard. Five calves watched me open the gate to come in and feed them in the pen — a space I think of as the nursery. A day earlier, I had separated these calves from their moms. Why do we keep the mothers and babies separate?…
Most of the Miles Smith Farm cattle respect fences. Fencing (not the kind with swords) is not a "one-and-done" thing. It's more like car maintenance; repairs are inevitable and necessary.
What are the chances that I’d randomly run into a fellow New Hampshire farmer during my recent five-day vacation in New York City? It’s all in knowing where to look.
Every once in a while, a story that should have been a tragedy turns out to have a happy ending. It began on a rainy Tuesday in July 2022.
A grand gesture loses grandeur when the presentation goes awry. Then it becomes a wet firecracker, a towering foul ball, an uncompleted pass. So when a guy named Darcy in Sedalia, Colorado, decided to give his wife, Kristi, a couple of my shaggy, long-horned Scottish Highland steers, they ha…
Could you live well without electricity? A few days on an Amish farm in Ohio showed me how it’s done. Earlier this month, husband Bruce and I delivered a cow to Harley and Sarah, who invited us to stay on a bit.
What could be better than a standing invitation to stay on an Amish farm? In November, Harley, an Amish farmer, bought 11 of my Scottish Highlander cattle and, with the help of a non-Amish driver and rig, took them from New Hampshire to Ohio.
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