As you may remember, one of our more memorable road trips this summer was to a berry picking farm in New Hampshire. Monadnock Berries is a family owned and operated 225-year-old farm within sight of Mount Monadnock in Troy, NH. Finding this place was an adventure all in itself, as our car’s GPS seems to be allergic to country roads. Fortunately, there were plenty of signs to help us out when our GPS sneezed.
My birthday falls at the end of July, and the timing of it has always made me a bit plaintive. Growing up in the South, my…
Father, preparing to allow his only child to ride a two-wheeled bike for the first time: “What are the rules of bike riding?”
Daughter: “No falling.”
On a trip to Davis Farmland, my daughter and I were told that goats have four stomachs. That didn’t seem like it could possibly be true, so when we got home we decided to check the facts. Turns out “goats have four stomachs” is sloppy shorthand for “goats have one very large stomach split into four compartments.” In this post we look at what each of those compartments are used for, and how a goat’s stomach changes over time.
Last weekend, while we were picking raspberries at Monadnock Berries in New Hampshire, one of the bushes committed a vicious assault upon my husband, leaving him…
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