What's Cooking at Walpole Valley Farms?
If you’re reading this, you probably love small farms, and if you love small farms, you probably love food. The two go hand in hand, like...
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Chris Caserta
Jan 3, 20151 min read
A New Year
A year to the day has passed since Chris took a nearly fatal blow to the head here on the farm. Words can't describe the emotions of the...
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Chris Caserta
Oct 29, 20142 min read
Are Your Eggs All They're Cracked Up to Be?
Chris and I don't buy meat or eggs at the store as we raise all of our own, but we do enjoy checking out what's available on the co-op...
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Chris Caserta
Sep 9, 20142 min read
It's Almost Turkey Time!
Turkey time is right around the corner and you know what that means...time to order your pasture-raised turkey from Walpole Valley Farms!...
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Chris Caserta
Aug 1, 20142 min read
August is New Hampshire Eat Local Month!
Eating locally is becoming increasingly popular as we have many more local farms to choose from, more farm stands, more co-ops popping up...
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Chris Caserta
Jul 14, 20142 min read
The Benefits of Interning on a Farm
We aren't all lucky enough to have grown up with acres and acres of land to explore, had the oppotunity to watch a calf being born, or...
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Chris Caserta
May 16, 20142 min read
What's Up With Double-Yolked Eggs?
This time of year marks a very special time for us here on the farm, double-yolker time!! Every spring we start a new flock of laying...
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Chris Caserta
May 2, 20142 min read
Grass Farming, What it is and Why it's Important
We consider ourselves grass farmers. What is grass farming you may ask? Just as it sounds, we grow grass. Growing grass doesn't sound...
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Chris Caserta
Mar 27, 20142 min read
Starting Anew
As I sit down to write this blog, I gaze out of the window to see perpetually snow covered fields. For us the snow has been a bit of a...
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Chris Caserta
Jan 8, 20142 min read
Resiliency During Tragedy
Early on Friday afternoon our small town withstood two tragedies. Our neighbors at Far HIlls Farm lost their barn and store to a fire and...
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Chris Caserta
Nov 26, 20132 min read
Shop Plaid not Black this Season!
Yes, that's us, looks like we're the official spokespeople for the Monadnock Buy Localsponsored Plaid Friday again this year! If you...
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Chris Caserta
Nov 9, 20132 min read
Lamb, the Sweet Meat!
I've always loved sheep. All breeds, shapes, sizes and colors, hair sheep, wool sheep, black, brown and white sheep. Three years ago I...
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Chris Caserta
Sep 10, 20132 min read
Why Don't We Raise Broiler Chickens All Year Long?
As we apporach our final chicken harvest I have been thinking about the incredibly short season that we have to raise our broiler...
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Chris Caserta
Aug 15, 20131 min read
Goodbye, Interns!
Here in the valley time moves fast as the summer rolls on. The animals are turning grass into thick muscle and beautiful fat, the trees...
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Chris Caserta
Jul 11, 20131 min read
Jam Jam Thank You Mam!
The fruit is here! This past week the raspberries ripened and are so abundant that they can't be eaten in just one sitting. Living in New...
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Chris Caserta
Jun 12, 20131 min read
Food and Thought Potluck
We know we are fully into the summer season when we start to have events on the farm. Last year we held a monthly potluck dinner called...
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Chris Caserta
Jun 3, 20132 min read
Pork, the other white meat?
As the pigs were loaded onto the trailer and headed for the slaughterhouse today, I got to thinking about how different this pork is than...
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Chris Caserta
May 21, 20132 min read
What's Our Intern Program all About?
Every year in the late winter Chris and I sift through applications for our summer internship here on the farm. We love the interview...
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Chris Caserta
Apr 10, 20132 min read
Where Can You Find Products From Walpole Valley Farms?
So much has happened in the past six and a half years! We went from a micro-farm to a small farm and we have really expanded our scope...
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Chris Caserta
Mar 3, 20132 min read
Joel Salatin and the Rise of the Pasture-Based Farm
Joel Salatin. The New York Times calls him " the high priest of the pasture" and we call him our inspiration. If you don't know who Joel...
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