Bobbie Emery
A Symphony of Sap
When we open up the sugar house in the morning, there’s often just the sound of the frozen ground crunching beneath our feet, the singing...
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Bobbie Emery
Jul 27, 20222 min
If We Graze It
One of the few plants in our pasture that our sheep won’t eat is milkweed. That’s very good news for the Monarch butterfly whose...
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Bobbie Emery
Jul 16, 20223 min
Bee TV
We put electric fencing around our beehive, which will hopefully keep the bears out. Anytime I do anything near the hive, I linger. I...
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Bobbie Emery
Jul 13, 20222 min
Barnyard Graffiti
I woke up this morning with the vague sense that dawn was unfolding outside. The birds were starting to sing, and I could hear the...
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Bobbie Emery
Mar 20, 20223 min
Old Friends
After my dad passed away, two of his friends clearly felt an obligation to keep an eye on me and my various endeavors. “Uncle” John had...
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Bobbie Emery
Mar 6, 20222 min
Tributaries
When it rains, the western face of our traprock ridge collects all the rain drops as they seep through the talus slope and run under the...
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Bobbie Emery
Dec 14, 20212 min
Fence Works!
Whenever one of our pigs touches the electric fence, and lets out an impressive heart rendering squeal, Anne and I, in perfect unison,...
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Bobbie Emery
Sep 20, 20212 min
Housewarming Sheep
When my mom was growing up on Mountain Spring, it was a small dirt road named Cedar Street. At that time, there were only five families...
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Bobbie Emery
Aug 22, 20212 min
Stacking Hay
I was thinking, that if I was ever told I only had one hour to live, but I could spend it doing anything I wanted, I'd choose stacking...
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Bobbie Emery
Jun 25, 20212 min
From Pangaea - with love
On the very last day of 2020 I found a quartz geode laying on top of a stone wall in our pig pasture. It's small – the exposed quartz is...
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Bobbie Emery
Jun 21, 20212 min
A Brood of Her Own
I've been arguing with a chicken for months. She has insisted on laying her eggs underneath our back porch and my days of happily...
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