Fall Foliage Hikes
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
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
Bennington County Conservation District Work Begins
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
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
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
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
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
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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Game of Logging, Part Two: Preparing for This Weekend
Fern and Arch, Merck Forest’s draft team, are champs at skidding logs. The farm staff took the horses to the junction of Gallop Road and Old Town to finish removing
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Game of Logging, Part One
At the end of this week, Merck Forest will be hosting another Game of Logging class. What is the Game of Logging, you ask? It does sound like something between
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