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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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Posted by cas
on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 09:37 AM (169 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 (352 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 (353 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 (628 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 (620 Reads)
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We had our farm day (Sunday, October 11, 2009) and by all accounts, it was a lot of fun! It appears that between 800 and 1200 people came to enjoy the weather, scenery, food, hay rides, and the animals. Many, many kudos and thanks to all the volunteers, vendors and visitors that helped to make it a wonderful day on the farm.
Carole and Bruce were too involved to take pictures, so they asked a few people to submit the pictures they took, which are in various albums (sorted by taker) here.
I'd like to encourage people to submit articles relating to their experiences of farm day. I can't guarantee that they'll be published, but we'll certainly consider it!
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Posted by jbd
on Monday, October 12, 2009 - 09:41 PM (688 Reads)
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On Saturday 3 October 2009, while he was putting up the Concord Farmer's Market meat display, Bruce got a call from a panic stricken woman. She was saying "the cows are out". The woman was not Bruce's wife, Carole. It was Gary's wife Carolyn!
And the cattle were out in Georges Mills! It took about an hour to drive from Concord to Georges Mill, and then about 15 minutes wandering around in the car looking for signs of escaped cattle and the people/dogs/police/... chasing them.
But then he rounded a corner and saw a car driving erratically and pulling into a driveway. The driver was on the cell phone gesticulating wildly. Clearly a cattle sighting.
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - 06:49 PM (762 Reads)
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Posted by jbd
on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 07:07 PM (943 Reads)
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Posted by jbd
on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 06:58 PM (972 Reads)
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Like most sunny days in recent memory, Bruce went out haying. He got a late start this morning because his partner Carole is away this week and he had to do all the chores she usually does. The horses, Rosie and Boynton were all fine. He finally got out of the house around 9:30am and made it to the hayfields in Springfield around 10:30am.
Gary was busy baling when Bruce arrived, so Bruce took the truck and hay trailer to the lower field to pick up the last cutting of hay (12 round bales). It was a bit tricky because the ground was rutted up and the hydraulics on the skid steer were "hot", but he got the job done.
Gary finished baling as Bruce put the last bale on the trailer and together they strapped the bales down. Gary took the truck up the hill, and Bruce followed in the skid steer; or at least he tried to follow...
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Posted by jbd
on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 09:58 PM (1080 Reads)
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SOMETIMES THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD is so overwhelming, I just want to throw
back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle and I don't care who hears
me because I am beautiful.
-- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
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