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 […]
Forest
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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New Education Director
In the rush to get ready for this past weekend’s Sheep Dog Trials and Farm Festival, I neglected to post that Merck Forest has hired a new education director. Patty
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Kat Deely: UVM Grad Student at Merck Forest
Kat Deely, a graduate student from the University of Vermont, is researching natural communities at Merck Forest. Three weeks ago, Kat moved into the Lodge for the summer. She has
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Sarah Finds Spring Ephemerals
Sarah and Rose have been helping Chad to clean out the sap lines up in the sugarbush, and they’ve been seeing quite a few of spring’s early plants. The sugarbush,
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Spring Fever
The weather two days ago was absolutely sublime. The sun has been rising higher over the Gallop now and it warms up the air at the farm. While we’ve been
Nurturing the Naturalist Within
Do you ever notice the small changes in the natural world while hiking? Like when one plant replaces another as you get closer to a stream? Or when a chickadee’s
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