My buddy Alfred has built the world’s coolest maple syrup evaporator based on an innovative design that is entirely his own. It’s made of...

My day job is in Washington, DC. My family and farm are in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. In this video, I make my regular commute home. Al...

Our Vermont farm has a (roughly) 130-year-old dairy barn. It is massive. And while it looks really cool, we have a dilemma. We have an am...

Today is the start of something different. We’re going to start posting YouTube videos as a way to provide more regular updates on our va...

Technically speaking, we hired our first employee at Gold Shaw Farm on Sunday. His responsibilities will include pest control and general...

Greetings from the Vermont Taiga! It has been way too long since I last offered a farm update. My only excuse is that it has been crazy b...

We have completed the swales and berms! And in my humble opinion, they look pretty damn good. All told, we ended up digging 6,083 feet of...

Later this week, a massive excavator is going to arrive on the farm. It’s finally time to start digging our swales and berms. We’re going...

It was one year ago today that I woke up in a strange and unfamiliar barn. Having arrived after midnight the previous evening, I had just...

Well, the decision has been made. We now know what we are going to do with our beautiful, old, gigantic barn. Recently, a guy who is cons...

In our last installment of the ongoing Creeping on Wildlife series, I tried to solve the mystery of what animal has been living in the ba...

On Saturday, I went turkey hunting on the farm with my friend Pin-Bo. We woke at the crack of dawn and stationed ourselves in a  pre-sele...

As our great debate about what to do with the barn drags on, I think I found a very interesting potential solution last week. In Hebron, ...

We recently moved passed another milestone in the renovation of the farmhouse. Things are looking on track for completion this summer. Ho...

Mud season. It’s almost become a cliche to talk about Vermont’s fifth season as an annoyance. Once the snow melts and the spring rains st...

“Yeah! Fresh larch,” exclaimed the boy. The little boy grabbed a pinch of needles from an 18-inch tree seedling and stuck them into his m...

Or maybe it’s a coyote. But I’m pretty sure it’s a fox.

Allison and I have two goals for the farm this year. Goal number one is to fix up the house and make it long-term livable. The second goa...

We are smack dab in the middle of the renovations of the farmhouse at Gold Shaw Farm. It’s been a very big project, but things have been ...

Earlier this week, I checked the trail cameras to see if I had captured any new wildlife footage. In previous episodes, I attempted to ca...