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Howard Hall Farm is both an historic restoration project and a vehicle for educating people in sustainable, environmentally conscious restoration techniques. The site of our learning laboratory is a 1780s stone manor in the heart of the Hudson River Valley. This Federal style home presents a number of restoration challenges specific to this region of the country. We invite you to join us in our effort to RESTORE GREEN.
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Monday, August 13, 2007

Too Many Chicks In Paradise! Who Ever Heard of Such A Thing?


Sad but true. We have way too many chicks! The Adams and Eves of foul have been having a ball, and now there are far too many little beaked babes scampering about. Yes, we have heard of gathering the eggs and making them deviled, but you try "happening to notice" that one of the little mamas has a secret nest in the roof. (We eventually did notice, when in the middle of a lightning storm in our windowless office on the balcony, we began chasing wind-blown papers about, and chicks started falling from the sky! Blossom was snapping them up in her jaws as quick as a whip, but many escaped under cover of the howling wind to proliferate, gobble, and peck.) So...

Help us by helping yourself! Free Chickens...take one, get one free! A dozen for the price of zero, et cetera, et cetera...

To get your free chicks, send us an email by clicking the link at the top of this page! Raise them, braise them, do what you will!

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Animal News

This weekend, Reggie was away, and I got to watch Blossom figure out what was different about the house. With all the sudden spare time she had that normally would have been filled with blindly following and adoring her loving master, some strange things came to her attention:

Our Little Blossom about to Discover the Minimalist Horror of An Empty Room.
This is the price puppies pay for living in a restoration project.

Blossom in Ye Olde Offyce

...wondering where all the familiar smells have gone...


What's going on here?

Lambchop, one of the two Great Pyrenees who guard the sheep from coyotes.

Good thing they have nice warm coats, huh?

Lamb baby!

Winter retreat!

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