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The News from Lewis Waite Farm

The first day of fall is just behind us and the air is crisper and breezy.
We have picked most of our vegetables and have our home freezer filled with
tomatoes, beans, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, and peppers. Our currant
cordial and wine from last year is aging in the root cellar. We are also
filling that space with fingerling potatoes, onions, and garlic. It was a
great year for vegetables despite the drought we are having now and we have
eaten well all summer. My fall plantings however, have a turn for the worse,
when last week our little pigs got out, and began to run straight for the
garden! It only took them a hour or less to rifle through all the broccoli
and the newly planted rows of seedlings of beets, lettuces, kale and arugula
to completely annihilate them! They got out a few times and each time we ran
them back in and checked the electric fence and found another fault that was
limiting the shock they got. It got so even when we touched it was a big
surprise. They still knew that if they ran fast enough it would only feel
funny for a second and then they could be eating the broccoli again! In all
the years I have lived here, this is the first time the pigs were in the
garden. It was quite a disappointment, but luckily we still have plenty of
Swiss chard, squash, leeks, tomatoes and other things to eat. Needless to
say, the piglets are locked up in a much better fence now and won’t be in
the garden again too soon!

We picked all of our grapes early this year when one day we saw a few calves
visiting the arbor and then the two roosters nearby and then the little pigs
also scurrying all over the place and ending up in the mulch around the
grapevines. A few bunches of grapes were on the ground two nights in a row
after all that and we guessed a critter of the night was also visiting and
eating up our crop. It has been a bit chaotic chasing all the youngsters
around the yard lately! So we picked about four 5 gallon pails of grapes and
got out the wine press. Ashleigh and I squeezed all the grapes with all our
might and the pressure action help of the press. We now have 5 gallons of
juice in 2 wine carboys waiting to begin bubbling in a corner of the
kitchen.

We miss our nephew Brian, the vintner, and his wife Allie, the herbalist,
who stayed with us last year and we married on the farm two years ago. They
moved to Maine this spring to start their own winery. They not only have a
new farm in Warren Maine to start planting grapes but a new baby girl, born
Sept. 21, named Sadie who is the first grand niece on my side of the family.

The next batches of beef items are due in our freezers by October 6 and we
have estimated what we will have so that your orders can include some of
these items we do not have today. If there is something you are looking for
that is not shown, please write comments on your order and we will provide
it if we can. We do have a new batch of Beef liverwurst (which also has pork
jowls as an ingredient) in slightly larger gold tubes. We have a new all
Beef Kielbasa made by Noack’s Meats (who also smokes our products and makes
our hotdogs) with no nitrites or preservatives. It comes in a pork casing
and is about 1.25 lbs. for each link. We do have a couple of party sized
links (what were they thinking when they made these two feet long?) and what
a party is could be!

New items are available from Argyllshire Farm. Barbara is busy with
restoring her family’s farmstead into a bed and breakfast and still finding
time to manage her herd of sheep and lambs. A few of her 100% grass-fed lamb
cuts are once again available through the website. She expects more items
back from the processor soon. Check out her grass-fed & finished lamb
offerings.

The next time you log on to our website, www.csapasturedmeatandpoultry.com
the newest feature of the website is our special turkey order form for your
Thanksgiving orders. We have found a holiday bird provider at Stonewood Farm
in Orwell VT, operated by the Stone Family. Paul Stone was once the
commissioner of Agriculture in Vermont and the farm has been in his family
for three generations. Orwell is just an hour or two north of us along the
shores of Lake Champlain. see www.stonewoodfarm.com for more information,
but please direct your questions about your order to me you’ll see the
turkeys are offered in 2 pound increments and the order deadline for our
Thanksgiving delivery is November 3rd. Hope that gives you all plenty of
time to make your dinner plans. Your turkey order is a separate order from
the normal November order but all your November frozen items will be packed
together if we can.

We wish you all a wonderful fall,

Nancy & Alan Brown

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich, NY 12834

www.lewiswaitefarm.com
www.csapasturedmeatandpoultry.com
518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

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