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Farm summer day camp is in full swing for the second year at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon.

Summer is sneaking up, and it’s time to plan what your kids will do when school lets out. Let me tell you about a fun farm camp that enchanted boys and girls last year.On the first day of the Miles Smith Farm 2022 summer day camp, 19 kids aged 8 to 14...

My dogs know if wildlife comes within 200 feet of the house, even with the windows and doors closed at night. Joy, my pitbull chow-chow mix, will wake me up from a deep sleep, begging to be let out to give chase. Because Joy is only 99% housebroken,...

Once again, this year, I signed up to bid in NH 4-H Livestock Show & Auction at the 2022 Hopkinton Fair, where fourteen 4-H club members presented goats, sheep, pigs, and steers they had spent a year raising and tending. Hours before the auction...

Last Friday nine teams and one camper led ten calves into the improvised show ring. Except for the single camper, one member of each team held the lead rope while the other camper walked behind, herding their calf around the ring. When the judge asked...

It was an event that occurred once in a lifetime. I’m not talking about the June 24 lining up of five planets and the moon for the first time since 1864. This is far rarer. Unique, actually. It was the Principia College classes of 1972 and 1973...

“I didn’t realize I’d see so many Highlander cattle today. And I never expected them to be so friendly,” said Sally. “I fell in love with Harmony. She is so huggable.” Visitors at our Easter event hugged Harmony and Daffodil, two 6-month-old Scottish...

Abby the sheep and June the heifer waited calmly next to their human teammates at the starting line. At the signal, they were off on a relay race. June’s team, the Highland Campers, had challenged Abby’s team, the Sheep Wranglers, to a relay race....

By the time you read this, Bruce and I will be back at Miles Smith Farm after our week-long visit to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and after four days on the road, our nine traveling bovines have arrived in California. The cattle now have a...

The cows are grazing on an abundance of fall grass, two calves were recently born, and some of our livestock have been blessed. On Oct. 4, in celebration of St. Francis of Assisi’s Feast Day, goats Dixie and Pixie were blessed by the Rev. Charles...