Auburn Meadow Farm

02/06/2026

The Women's Land Army, organized to bring women to the farms emptied of workers when the men went to war, is a fascinating bubble in time.

It would be such a reset to our country if we were more willing to experience lives so very different from what we grew up living. Why literature is so powerful.

'For many of the thousands of women enrolled in the WLA, the work was unlike anything they had ever experienced. The Vogue article, for which Lee Miller captured this shot, notes: 'It sometimes comes as a surprise to the city girl, who imagined farm work to be easy and unskilled, to find that it is the fundamental art of civilisation; and that work on the land is as regulated by the clock as work in a city office.'

📷Land Army, girl with bull, Chessington, England 1943 by Lee Miller © Lee Miller Archives, England 2026. All rights reserved.

29/05/2026

Hello little goslings. Looks like 4-ish. Some of these young geese did a really sloppy job with nesting and I did not help, as 40 geese is more than enough. But a few did such a smart and careful job I let them go, this one in particular. Very good goose Mom so far.

25/05/2026

This is a good post for illustrating how hay is looking in Western Pennsylvania this year. Amazing grass, good luck getting it in.

Meanwhile, we have not-so-far areas of deep drought who do not have enough grass to eat, let alone store for later.

Elsewhere there have been tornadoes. Yikes stripes, the moving playing board is hard to navigate.

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23/05/2026

There's a lot packed into this sweet video that you might not appreciate because the details of milk really don't matter much to our everyday lives in ways we realize.

1. Enough. This farm milks 80 cows, on 137 acres.
2. They are not milking hyper-purebred commodity style cows.
3. They are making about half the amount of milk a modern commodity dairy does.
4. It works because they are less impacted by the whiplash of too many/not enough cows, and market fluctuations, plus they are able to manage their reduced input costs in a less reactionary way.
5. This was not mentioned, but I would happily wager the milk tastes so much better, and if analyzed separately for nutrient content measures higher.

22/05/2026

Grass is the best seasoning. Healthy soil, diverse grasses & legumes, and the sweet spot of the right number of animals for the right number of days makes all the meat, eggs & milks taste better.

18/05/2026

Pittsburgh Friends, here's the news I was dreading: strawberry season has been impacted by the weather. If you have ever tried growing strawberries, know it is a labor of love, and a fickle crop in wet-spring Pennsylvania.

This is a hit for Shenot early in the season, do your best to include their store in your weekly shopping. Their apple selection is lovely, consistent, and the store is an easy-access pitstop for lots of staples.

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16/05/2026

Acts of Restorative Kindness to the Earth. The delicate balance of growing wholesome food for vibrant people, allowing space for nature's ecological balance, and improving the soil and water as you go. Mary Reynolds is so lovely, and so right, check out her short message.

"Allow nature to thrive and be wild in as many patches as you can" - Mary Reynolds Mary designs Arks.Acts of Restorative Kindness to the Earth.Build an Ark a...

13/05/2026

Wonder, are you familiar with who JBS is? And how many supermarket and food service brands they are behind?

Now they are also the market itself, greenwashing themselves into posing as a modernized version of ye ole local meat market.

As long as Americans fail to wonder, the long, slow, painful squashing of independent business will continue until there's little America left. Read up:

Wild Fork Foods, owned by the largest meatpacker in the world, is the latest manifestation of industry consolidation.

10/05/2026

Mother's Day can be a mixed bag for many, but the ideal is always one worth celebrating. If you don't have one, maybe you can be one in some overlooked corner of the world?

We celebrate our Moms all the time, really, as they bring so many joyful moments like this; we wish you all a beloved day.

08/05/2026

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