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​​Today we begin with a poem:     There once was a sawmill from the north,    A tide of joyful lumber it brought forth,    It sawed with a study blade,    A feat of board feet it made,    And now we sell lumber of course ! This concludes the poem.  Now we […]

Greetings, fellow livestock enthusiast.  You may recall that just a few short months ago, our heroes of BOTL Farm ran a long and difficult campaign trail to seek election to the highest office in an 1820’s farmhouse.  The office is on the first floor.  However, one of the campaign promises made by our farmers-elect was

​Greetings my fellow classic Christmas song enthusiasts!  Today we’re going to explore another oft-overlooked aspect of farming – winter living in an 1820’s farmhouse.  We’ll also touch on the roles of feminism in firewood splitting, technology to prevent pipes from freezing, the infrared light spectrum, shivery puppies, and providing farm animals with water when the

Greetings fellow small farm enthusiast.  Bootstrapping a small rural farm presents many challenges, such as building a sign and a farm stand.  We can learn from the authors of the Unix grep command that the fastest way to do work is to eliminate the work that needs to be done.  Therefore we combined the farm

​1) No lemurs were used in the production of your eggs.  It is commonly known, that lemurs are excellent wood workers, but they don’t lay eggs. It is important to recognize what each of your employees excels at, and set them up for success. 2) Most chicken feed has corn and soy.  Any rich hipster,

We played a rousing game of “name that dog” when our pup arrived.  With her dark fur we strongly considered a name like “Midnight” or “Hello-Darkness-My-Old-Friend”.  With her lab heritage, we considered a standard name like “Lady” or maybe “Fluffy”.  After consulting the magic eight ball and extended horoscopes, we thought briefly that we should

​Good day, faithful followers of the bountiful BOTL.  It has been 6 months since we last spoke, and for this we offer our deepest apologies.  The past 6 months have not been lacking in development, so today let’s focus our discussion on a specific topic.  Let’s talk about the fields, the harvest, but most importantly…

Welcome dear reader, for another adventure in BOTL Farming.  Let’s jump quickly into today’s agenda:    1) Contractors   2) Jobs   3) Why we are still buying pork but not selling it yet Before we get to that agenda, let’s begin with an agenda.  Today is January, the day after inauguration.  Let us not take a

Hello everyone who is a reader of this post that is written, Today is the fest of October.  Aka Oktober.  Aka the Oktoberfest.  Many people are not aware that Oktoberfest is actually celebrated in a middle European country named Germany in September.  The name Oktoberfest is derived from the month after September, which is when

Greetings dear reader, from sunny Connecticut. Today is September, which marks nearly the end of summer. That reminds me, I should buy a snow shovel. In our last edition of the BOTL Farm blog periodical, we mentioned that BOTL Farm had purchased a farm. This was not entirely super accurate, as we were actually deeply