As Julie and I prepare to head into the sunset and turn operations over to Peter, I wanted to get out a final 2025 newsletter telling the Ten Barn Farm origin story and reflecting briefly on what we’ve learned.

We have reached the midpoint of our fourth year of operation having already served more people than we did in the entirety of any of our previous three seasons.

The big news is early Thursday morning one of our mama goats, Katrina, delivered Chloe and Winnie. 

Many of you have heard me talk about the fact that the eggs from our healthy and happy chickens travel 15 yards and the veggies 150 yards to your plate when you eat at The Kitchen.

Spring is in the air! We have spent our off-season imagining what’s possible for 2025.

Recently I have been planing hundred year-old barnwood, stacked up decades ago, in hopes it might find a new purpose one day…

Our youngest son, Matthew, has long dreamed of having a job and earning a paycheck, but finding supported employment in Columbia County is a challenge.

With hot weather in the very early spring causing many trees and plants to bud out early, followed by a cold snap damaging, and even destroying, some crops before the season got started, I am reminded how farmers are on the frontlines of climate change as they try and adapt to a world where there is no more normal.

Since I last wrote, Spring has burst forth and all those bushes that for 50 weeks of the year you pass without notice open their white, purple and pink buds filling the air with spring sweetness.