Stark Hollow Farm

05/29/2024

The listing is live! If you want to be in town, close to all amenities, on city sewer and city water and still have wild space, an urban farm or business, or land you could subdivide. This property is amazing and the house is a classic farm house with a large timber frame barn.

Listed for sale at $530000. Welcome to your serene urban oasis nestled in Montpelier! This picturesque 1823 white farmhouse exudes charm and charact...

08/31/2023

Sept 30 - Oct 1 at Tunbridge Fairgrounds!

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08/16/2023

Two hawks came to our yard today. I managed to capture a photo of this one with its wings draped open and its tail feathers spread. I’m not sure what kind of hawk it is!

06/27/2023

Ruminants are amazing creatures, but what does being a ruminant mean? Ruminants are ungulates (2-toed) animals that chew a regurgitated cud. In order to chew their cud, they must have a specific type of stomach -- a rumen. Our domesticated ruminants have 1 stomach with 4 awesome compartments.
1. Rumen - The 1st chamber is the biggest and can be bigger than 30 gallons in a mature cow! The rumen has a "shaggy" carpet feel/look with papillae that flow back and forth (think seaweed moving in the ocean). The rumen is filled with "bugs" and has its own ecosystem of bacteria and yeast to break down forages.
2. Reticulum -- This 2nd chamber is a smaller outcropping of the rumen and has "cups" like a honeycomb pattern to catch the food for digestion.
3. Omasum - The 3rd part is a tight basketball shaped compartment in adult cattle with many "pages" of a book. The food weaves back and forth, absorbing water and drying out the ingesta.
4. Abomasum - The 4th compartment is like our human stomach. The ingesta is rehydrated with acid for the final digestion before the intestines.
Check out what they look like!

06/08/2023

Chickens are highly susceptible to predators, especially if they're free range. Foxes, raccoons, birds of prey and even snakes can all pose a threat to a free-range flock. To protect your chickens from predators, you'll need to consider installing appropriate fencing, providing shelter, keeping your...

03/10/2023

It is with deep sadness and also deep gratitude that we see the last of our beautiful Icelandics head off to their new farm. It is hard to let go and yet life has moved us towards change once again. I am so very grateful that our sheep found wonderful homes. Thanks to Freedom Hill Farm, Greywether Farm and Milk Homestead. Congrats and best of luck! I know you will all do great!

03/06/2023

https://www.sheepandgoat.com/_files/ugd/aded98_415380e8b6a04a0eaa31ee1da0c7ec33.pdf
https://www.sheepandgoat.com/infographics

03/05/2023

Kjolver went off to her new home at Freedom Hill Farm last week. Apparently she’s settling in like a champ. Transporting a sheep in the back of a car. She doesn’t seem to mind.

02/25/2023

Yep…that’s a sheep in that truck. Izzy is off to reunite with her daughter at Greywether Farm in Wolcott. Flock dispersal under way.

02/21/2023

Great story. We have two fiber sheep we’d like to re-home.

Muriel’s of Vermont is a mother-and-son garment business based out of a makeshift workshop in Grand Isle.