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Welcome to Miles Smith Farm®!
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Please visit our store web site.
Welcome Localvores! Nothing is more local than New Hampshire raised Miles Smith Farm beef.
Visit our store to select locally rasied Scottish Highlander and Angus beef.
All of our beef is naturally raised without hormones or antibiotics.
We sell both Scottish Highlander and Angus individual cuts as well as sides of beef.
Please call 603 783 5159 for more information.
This is also the home site of Carole Soule, Bruce Dawson, and Paddy Keenan.
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Well, I finally have time to write something about the wind storm that hit us on Thursday 25 Feb 2010. Our weather station's anemometer was recording winds of 50 MPH when the power went out around 23:45 (11:45pm) The utility power didn't come back on until Sunday at 14:15 (2:15pm).
Normally, we're prepared for this kind of thing - we have a big generator that is supposed to kick on when the power goes out (we need to keep the electric fences charged and the water trough's flowing, and the freezers cold). Unfortunately, the generator failed its exercise test earlier in the month so it was in the shop. Coincidentally, I brought it back on Thursday night, but didn't have time to re-install it.
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 06:30 PM (43 Reads)
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Bruce recently had the farm truck painted. Have a look here and let us know what you think.
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Posted by cas
on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 08:14 PM (39 Reads)
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We spent this past Christmas (2009) on St. Croix with Bruce's family. Although we worked every day (we were in the office even on Christmas Day) we schedule room for some family fun time. See the pictures here.
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Posted by jbd
on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 07:58 PM (60 Reads)
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Until this week the farm has "dodged" the storm "bullet". We have many storms but rarely lost power until this last rain storm. Once again our generator broke but fortunately it was repaired and back at the farm the same day we lost power. The bad news is that it was in the back of the truck. The generator is about the size of two car engines which makes it hard to move and complex to hook up.
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Posted by cas
on Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 07:02 AM (54 Reads)
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Last year WMUR TV featured the farm on Chronicle. If you missed the broadcast you can see it here: http://www.wmur.com/chronicle/17597260/detail.html.
This piece was recorded during the summer so if you live in a snowy, cold place (like we do) watch it to help remember what summer looks like!
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Posted by cas
on Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 06:54 AM (49 Reads)
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Posted by cas
on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 09:37 AM (272 Reads)
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Rock Hill, home to a lot of Bruce's relatives and ancestors is slated for destruction in Spring of 2010. Pictures of it are here.
Hopefully, some kind soul will add comments about the house(s) and those who lived there!
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 - 09:14 PM (423 Reads)
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To keep the fields in good shape we need to apply fertilizer. This year we purchased 22 tons of "potash" from Amey, Inc in Pittsburg, NH which was delivered on Nov 23 by a very large truck.
Now the challenge is to spread the ash on the fields. The ash is 100% organic and will act like lime to reduce the acidity of the fields. We will post pictures and stories as our first attempt to fertilize our fields progresses.
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Posted by cas
on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 07:59 AM (405 Reads)
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Our farm doesn't raise Turkeys, but we know you are looking for them. Here's a list from the Weekly Market Bulletin of NH farms that are offering fresh turkeys.
(Click "Read more" for the list)...
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 08:13 PM (706 Reads)
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On Saturday, Oct 24, after a morning at the Concord Farmer's market in a deluge, Carole, still wearing her very wet rain gear, noticed a new born calf in the back pasture. This was the mother's first calf and while the mother seemed attentive, Carole went back later in the afternoon just to be sure everything was ok.
It was not. The baby was alone in the back of the field shivering in the pouring rain. Carole used her cell phone to call Bruce, who came up and transported both the calf and Carole (who held the calf) in the bucket of the tractor back to the barn and warmth.
Then we went back and got the mother out of the pasture and into the holding pen. After the calf had dried out and warmed up, we put her with her mother. Both are doing fine on this warm and sunny day!
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Posted by cas
on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 04:08 PM (684 Reads)
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I was in a bar and I walked up to a beautiful woman and said, "Do you live
around here often?" She said, "You're wearing two different-color socks."
I said, "Yes, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness."
She said, "How do you feel?" And I said, "You know when you're sitting on a
chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so
you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like
that all the time..."
-- Steven Wright, "Gentlemen's Quarterly"
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