Olly Olly is Danielle’s family friend, as well as Nick’s adopted sister.* We’re happy to report that Olly retired early and chooses to spend several weeks per year visiting and working with us at the farm....
Open source Open source is something people can modify and share because its design is publicly accessible and free to use. Typically this term is used for computer programs but here at BOTL Farm we use it more g...
Paddocks Each paddock is a fenced area where we can move animals into, provide water and shelter, and they can graze. Paddock sizes range greatly, from a few hundred square feet to an acre or more. They can be...
Pasture Pasture is vegetation-covered land used for grazing livestock. Having animals "on pasture" means that they are not on dirt lots and not confined to one paddock all year round. For our 40-acre operatio...
Quiet Corner Northeastern Connecticut, better known as the Quiet Corner, is a historic region of the state of (duh) Connecticut, located in the northeastern corner of the state (wow). It is generally associated wi...
Regenerative Regenerative farming means that the land, ecosystem, and watersheds are positively benefited, enhanced, improved, and made better by the farm. It means not having concentrated animal manure that will ...
Silvopasture The practice of integrating trees, forage, and intensively managed rotational grazing of livestock in a mutually beneficial way. At some point we will write a lot more about this, but for now.......
The Last Green Valley BOTL Farm is located in this federally designated national heritage corridor, which extends from northeast Connecticut into Massachusetts. From Wikipedia, “this area was designated because it is one o...
TLDR Our website is really long but here is a quick synopsis of what we do and who we are. BOTL Farm is a pasture-based, sustainability-focused livestock farm in northeast Connecticut raising: Pigs: They a...