Spring Pond Farm Highland Cattle

05/17/2026

Moose swimming across Powder Mill Pond taken from the Cilley Family Forest

05/07/2026

01/18/2026

Early sign of spring! The Mommas To Be of Blackfire Farm move into the big barn and we all wait for the cuties to start arriving…

08/16/2025

Not a great year for peaches. Only 2 trees out of 7 had fruit. The apples are also a little thin. Oh well, at least the canning will be a little easier!

06/28/2025

Another huge turnout for Flag Leaf Bakery and Blackfire Farm! Blackfire Farm

05/25/2025

Floppy…strayed far away from the flock as usual, and I had to find her to bring her in…she seriously looks like something out of the exorcist when she does this with her head..

05/04/2025

Annual Pond stocking day….75 trout …
which usually leads to Blue Heron picnic time…

04/26/2025

Did you bring us more acorns?

04/25/2025

Our Neurologically challenged chicken. This poor girl was picked up by a raptor and dropped onto a barn roof where she sat in the snow for several hours until a neighbor saw her.
How we got her down is another story, but her neck was broken and her head flopped over completely (hence her new name “Floppy”). A few weeks in her own stall with a heat lamp and plenty of mealworms and she’s now a feisty bird. She runs in circles, gets lost, and sometimes can’t find her way back in, but when I pick her up to bring her back to the coop she gives me a loud squawk and a good peck so I know whose in charge. Yesterday she was following the other hens and ran headfirst into a fence post…looked back as if to say “ yeah, I meant to do that”