Notes from Norah

We hope you’ve been lifting weights lately, because this week’s CSA boxes are weighing in at nearly 25 pounds! Thanksgiving is upon us, and we want your holiday table to be brimming with Sweetland goodies

Yesterday at 9am sharp a big yellow school bus pulled into the farm stand parking lot and disgorged 17 highschool students and their 2 teachers. It was a class visit from Hartford High, where the

Labneh & Pita tasting Saturday (Nov 8) 10am-12pm in the farm store. Come sample some of Shovel & Spoon’s delicious products, now available at Sweetland unless Norah has eaten them all! Holiday Dessert from Piper

Dear Sweetlanders This morning the crew gathered in the barn for morning meeting with frost coating the gators and steam puffing from everyone’s breath. It really is the end of the summer season. In some

When our extended family decided that mid-October would be a good time to visit us for a long weekend we worried about taking time away from our many incomplete fall projects to entertain. Luckily, the

In mid-September when the forecast calls for frost we pull out all the stops to save tender crops and extend the harvest season for a few more precious weeks. But when the calendar flips to

I would like to take a moment this week to pay tribute to our amazing farmstand manager while she is away on a much deserved vacation (and can’t stop me)! According to Shelagh’s job description,

It’s gathering season! The time of year that creatures big and small stock their larders in preparation for leaner months ahead. In the woods the acorns are dropping, covering the ground so thick in places

On Friday of last week the forecast called for a low of 32 degrees and patchy frost. In preparation (and knowing that our farm usually sees lows as much as 8 degrees colder than the

With great excitement and pride I would like to announce that Sweetland has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of the Sand County Foundation’s Leopold Conservation Award! In his influential 1949 book, A Sand County Almanac,

With the change in the weather and shifting of the season we have begun to have more time to focus on completing some of our bigger projects. If you’ve peeked across the street from the

The dawn sky was a study in cloud formations this morning as we loaded our third batch of chickens for harvest. Wispy cirrus painted the sky like watercolor brush strokes. A layer of cirrostratus rippled