Latest Have-A-Cow Update
There is nothing like fall on a New England Farm
It's time for harvesting the cold-weather veggies and getting the cows off the pastures and into the barnyards. Honking geese are flying overhead, migrating south for the winter. It's time for celebrating and sharing the harvest with friends and neighbors at country fairs, and with family members over a Thanksgiving Day meal.
Yes, this issue looks different!
We’re trying a different format for this issue. This issue contains an update from one cow from each of the four farms, sharing stories about their friends on each of their farms. Look for more changes to our Have-a-Cow Updates in the months ahead!
Franklin Family Farm
Home of Marge, Nanner, and Cocoa
By the time you read this, Cocoa, Nanner and I will be off the pastures for the season and back into the barnyard where we'll be munching on big bales of hay. Our farmers, Mary Ellen and David, grew enough hay this year to last us the whole winter! -more-
Paul-Lin Dairy
Home of Vega
Linda says our hay growers had trouble making hay this year, and we don't have enough to last through the winter. So our hay buyers are looking in Canada, where they'll probably find some. -more-
Howmars Farm
Home of Willa and Winona
It's apple season! The other day, Farmer Jonathan took my year-old friend Winona and her young herd mates to graze in the pasture across the road. There are wild apple trees by the gate and the youngsters all ran to eat the apples. I guess their moms never warned them about getting a stomachache from eating too many apples, because two of them didn't want to eat their grain the next morning. -more-
Choiniere Family Farm
Home of Hershey, Libby, Viper and Spiffy.
Hershey here, reporting from a crisp fall day at the Choiniere Family Farm near Lake Champlain in Vermont. I have to confess to being impatient at the moment. I'm due to give birth any day now, and my herd mates are having babies all over the place! At last count, we had 20 new calves born here in the last three weeks.
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