“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde A television production focusing on local interest stories visited Nye Hill recently. The piece

Birthdays here are celebrated with dinners, in the kitchen where we take all our meals, but birthdays are a bit more. The cooking is more

THE ENDURANCE**apologies to Caroline Alexander, whose account of Earnest Shackleton’s antarctic expedition, of the same title, is unparalleled; all coincidences intended I began to be

Earth moves through space at what we estimate to be sixty-six thousand miles an hour. Sixty- six thousand miles. Per hour. Merwin wrote “we are

W.S. Merwin began his Tale… “After many winters the mossfinds the sawdust crushed bark chipsand says old friendold friend” What is believed to be the

An article recently appeared in a local advertising publication, entitled “Inconvenient Facts”. It begins with a quotation. “Organic practices can reduce climate pollution produced directly

Our crew is fairly diverse. Some are peculiar, some curmudgeons and a few are downright cantankerous. Then there’s one in every crowd, happy. One of

Following a disappointing loss in a playoff game some years back, then Boston Bruin’scoach Claude Julien was pressed to explain his team’s lackluster performance. “Wehad

To reduce the possibility of legal action for libel from any person who believes that they have been defamed by their portrayal in this story,

Nye Hill Farm was established in 1790, the year President George Washington delivered the nation’s first State of the Union Address. The farmstead’s original stone

Horse people can be fussy about hay. Very. They may be no less fussy about hay than someone else is about dog food, or cat

The besieged writer – director Woody Allen once offered that he did not want to achieve immortality through his work, he wanted to achieve immortality

When we first applied for organic certification, back in 2014, we were quite confident we were doing everything right. We had met the requirement that

Animals don’t come here to die. They do, die here, but that’s not why they came. Some come abandoned, some discarded, some abused. Some just

“How to spend a day nobly is the problem to be solved…” – Ralph Waldo Emerson A farm does not know what day it is.

A Good Loaf… Here at Nye Hill, like most people in most places, we slice time up into increasingly smaller pieces. Lives, years, months, weeks,

ALL BEINGS… The Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Naht Hanh wrote “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before

GENUINELY LOCAL… Around the farm, and even off the farm, we talk a lot about “organic”, what it really means, its very strict standards, and

“An organic farm, properly speaking, is not one that uses certain methods and substances and avoids others; it is a farm whose structure is formed