Comments on: A tour of my farm

By: LillyZoo

LillyZoo — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:00:33 +0000

Martha, Do you tap any of the maples you have? Thanks for the great gallery of your place.

By: jennifer moncada

jennifer moncada — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:38:54 +0000

we love seeing pics of your home. Please keep them coming! I can't get enough.

By: Cheap Checks

Cheap Checks — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:57:03 +0000

One of the reasons I came to your blog is for inspiration and inspired is exactly what I got. My husband and I are planning on moving from a large city to a much smaller town of 13,000 and buying about 100 acres. You have given me so many ideas of what I want to do. After seeing your pictures, I'm so excited about our upcoming move. I have been so nervous because it's a huge leap moving from the city.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:59:58 +0000

Dear Martha,

Great tour, beautiful equipment and the stable is a work of art. But you already know this.

Funny story, I was raised on a small farm and now have my own. The first year I got my own chicks, I soon found that I had way too many roosters, in fact 12 of the 24! So I went back to my local chicken farmer where I bought my chicks for 50 cents each (RI Reds) and I said to her, "do you know how many roosters I have?" She threw her head back and laughed and said, "Oh, maybe 50%!" Lesson learned. She soon had a few young roosters for her stock pot and I learned my lesson from life on the farm, the best place to learn!

Now I am into chickens up to my ears, but only one rooster! Roosters rule the roost, in the barnyard, anyhow!

By: Suzanne Morelli

Suzanne Morelli — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:04:34 +0000

Martha - your pictures of your farm are just heavenly. What a beautiful life you have. You work so hard. What a nice reward it is to have such beauty in your life. It's so great you share moments like this with us.

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:16:54 +0000

I absolutely love to see pictures of your farm. We've (my husband and I) farmed all our married lives (40 years this September) and we're living on a farm 6 1/2 miles from where I grew up. It is a lot of work preparing the soil to plant our crops in the spring, irrigating and keeping them weed-free in the summer and then harvesting them in the fall. But it is an awesome place to raise a family and I wouldn't want to trade with anyone. Thank you for sharing.

By: Teresa Touey

Teresa Touey — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:19:00 +0000

Cousin Don and Martyn signing --- how fun ! What a lovely picture that you captured! The country was built by farmers --- including George Washington who wanted to continue farming --- and not be a president --- he had to persuaded to leave the farm!

By: Martha Stewart

Martha Stewart — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:17:45 +0000

Kerry MacLeod wanted to know what I feel about cork flooring - I love it! I have used it in my apartment kitchen in New York City and up in Maine. I also love it on walls. Hope you choose it.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:08:50 +0000

Hi, Martha,
Thanks for the update on photographer Paul Mobley and the subjects of his new book American Farmer, Cousin Don, alice Wiemers, and Carly DelSignore. When I heard of Mobley's book and his subjects on your program around Thanksgiving, I thought of my father and my brother, two farmers who cared and care for the land and animals they tend(ed). I also thought of all the work and fun of life on the farm---among them baling and unloading, weeding, harvesting and preserving the crops as well as feeding the animals, walking on the land, games of baseball in the summer and sledding and snow fort building in the winter. I can still see the sun rise early in the morning, hear the young calves cry out for their breakfast, and taste the delicious food we grew and raised.
Thanks for the memories, Martha.
Kathy

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:05:00 +0000

You're so lucky Martha.