With a great harvest from our storage garden this past season, we’ve been working on some carpentry projects to help us preserve these crops for the coming months and for …
I visit Merck’s chicken coop several times a week, usually when I walk up to the farm to take pictures and see what the farm staff is up to. On …
Fall foliage is here! The leaves on the sugar maples are beginning to turn hues of yellow, red, and orange. Oak leaves are deepening their hue, red maples are a …
If you are looking for the Merck piglets after this week, you won’t have much luck looking in the Small Animal Barn, their home since they were born two months …
For many of our more local visitors, this may interest you: Drivers who commute back and forth along Route 315 are well acquainted with the “hill”. From Dorset side cars …
Bennington County Conservation District Work Begins Read More »
Potatoes, Part Two: The Taste Test Last month apprentice Rose wrote about the varieties of potatoes that the farm planted this year (click here to reread that article). She promised …
The Frank Hatch Sap House was built over a decade ago. It houses everything from Merck Forest’s sugaring operation in the late winter and early spring to the Pancake Breakfast, …
The start of September marks the beginning of the holiday shopping for some. We certainly start to see an increase in the amount of shipped syrup. The new glass bottles …
Visitors don’t have to walk very far to be treated to spectacular views at Merck Forest. Anyone that has been up to the farm on even a moderately clear day …
We often talk about “reading” the landscape. How can you look at forest and understand some of the many natural interactions that take place every day? Often, it is so …
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