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The Root Cellar

education, Farm, Place-based education / By Marybeth

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 …

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Authenticity of the Chicken Coop

1 Comment / Farm, Uncategorized / By Marybeth

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 …

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Fall Foliage Hikes

Forest / By Marybeth

 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 …

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Pig on Pasture

Farm, Forest, Uncategorized / By Marybeth

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 …

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Bennington County Conservation District Work Begins

education / By Marybeth

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 …

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Potatoes, Part Two: The Taste Test

3 Comments / Uncategorized / By Marybeth

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 …

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Sap House: A Multi-Use Space

Events / By Marybeth

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, …

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Maple Syrup Sales Season

Uncategorized / By Marybeth

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 …

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Never Lacking for a View

1 Comment / Camping, education, Forest / By Marybeth

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 …

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Reading the Landscape

Forest / By Marybeth

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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