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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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Miles Smith Farm was featured in the Fall 2010 issue of the Around Concord magazine. We even got the cover story! (The "cover" and "story" are both PDF files.
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 03:35 PM (22 Reads)
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WPTZ in Lebanon, NH has a news short on the three New Hampshire recipients of a national VAPG grant, and we were one of them!
You can see it here.
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Posted by jbd
on Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 04:27 PM (99 Reads)
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Last year was a great year for us at some of the local farmer's markets.
This year we'll be presenting our meat the following New Hampshire markets:
- Concord - Saturday mornings
- Northwood - Thursday afternoons
- Deerfield - Friday afternoons
And we'll be attending others on an irregular basis.
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Posted by jbd
on Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 12:24 PM (117 Reads)
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This looks like a banner year for hay! The first crop was ready at the end of May (but we didn't start cutting until mid-June due to equipment and scheduling delays). And we were busy all the way into early July.
We got just under 200 round bales from our 40 acres (combined total) of hay fields. Our goal is 500 bales for this year (the extra 100 is so we don't have to turn the critters out to grazing fields so early next year - we want to give the grass a chance to grow).
We are trying a new technique this year - wrapping the bales at the barn instead of the field. This was a problem until we discovered we could use our log splitter to run the hydraulics on the wrapper. Worked nice. Apologies to our neighbors for all the noise while I wrapped late into some nights.
The reason for this change: last year we damaged a lot of wrapped bales in transport and delivery; resulting in a lot of spoilage and unpalatable hay. So we'll try transporting the hay baled but unwrapped and then wrapping them just outside the storage area. Of course, this means everything is very time critical because the bales have to be wrapped 24 hours after they have been baled, otherwise they spoil.
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Posted by jbd
on Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 12:20 PM (118 Reads)
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Well, we've discovered that the "free lawn mowing" provided by the cattle has a down side (no, its no the cow "plops" - those are an up side - they're fertilizer). The down side is that as the grass matures, it goes to seed, and the cattle don't like "old mature" grass as much.
So, the lawn mower has been taken out, maintained (twice), and used. The place looks better now.
We'll return to the "cattle mowing" technique soon.
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Posted by jbd
on Sunday, July 18, 2010 - 12:10 PM (110 Reads)
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I had completely forgotten about this interview.
You can read and listen to the interview on NHPR Word of Mouth program here.
Oh. Its about using cell phone (specifically smart phone) technology on the farm.
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Posted by jbd
on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 01:42 PM (236 Reads)
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Now begins lawn mowing season. Some people confuse this season with "summer", except "lawn mowing season" gives one the feeling of sweat soaked shirts, biting bugs, lawn mower fumes and disposing of grass clippings.
Being a yankee farmer, we came up with an innovative solution to two problems:
- How to get the lawn mowed with minimal effort.
- How to avoid buying hay to feed the cattle.
Here is a picture of our solution.
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Posted by jbd
on Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 09:36 PM (263 Reads)
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Its been a month or so since we last posted a story on this web site. This was for several reasons:
- We wanted to see if anyone would notice and submit a story on their own.
- With the early spring, we've been really busy.
- We've got too many projects(!) going on.
We hope to get back to posting a bit more frequently.
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 02:30 PM (271 Reads)
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Posted by jbd
on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 01:11 PM (218 Reads)
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Posted by jbd
on Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 05:08 PM (437 Reads)
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Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon,
there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he
was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how
completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday....
-- Walt Kelly
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For a history see:
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http://www.nh.com
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