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		<title>Finally, a decent snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a brown holiday, and a couple of mangy frustrating icy attempts, winter came on in a satisfying way. We got five or six inches of perfect, fluffy snow to cover the crust and turn everything beautiful. Alexis had to leave early for a 24-hour stint in the ICU, so I got up and plowed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1072&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>no cheeseburger for you</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Paul Krugman&#8217;s blog, a post explaining why you really couldn&#8217;t has cheezburger before the days of modern food technology. Meanwhile, today was the Great Stroudwater Pumpkin Massacre of 2011. The pumpkins we harvested have been sitting in the link room since October, and some of them were starting to get soft spots, so I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1068&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Design drawing for post-crusher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks have asked for more design details on the post-crushers we use in our pedal grinder. I&#8217;ve put a link to a PDF drawing under &#8220;Cider Equipment Plans&#8221; over on the right. If anybody wants actual CAD files, email me at firstinitiallastname at gmail. The concept is basically that you want two drums with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1060&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Childsplay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff and Ellen sent an email the other day alerting us to a concert at the Portland high school of a unique musical group called Childsplay. It&#8217;s a big group of musicians who all (the fiddlers and violists, anyway) play instruments made by one guy &#8211; Bob Childs, formerly of Maine, now in Cambridge MA. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1058&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful hydraulic tie-bar press by Lockehaven Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks up in our old neighborhood have taken up the homebrew cider equipment torch, and produced a very attractive hydraulic tie-bar press made of hickory: They then proceeded to make two bins(!) worth of cider using a hand-crank grinder &#8211; that is serious work! These folks obviously have the skills to build stuff, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1051&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pie Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not 3/14, rather the first snowy day of the season. Apparently last year the gang here celebrated the first snow with a big fry (tempura, samosas, doughnuts) and regretted it for days afterwards. So, this year we celebrated with pie &#8211; apple pie for starters, pumpkin for second course, and chocolate cream pie for dessert, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1048&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I borrowed &#8220;The Dirty Life&#8221; by Kristin Kimball from Kelsey, and I started reading with my teeth on edge, for a couple reasons. First, I can&#8217;t stand chicken-pimping, after grinding my teeth about this from the NYT &#8211; why do photographers insist on spotless clothing and improbable intimacy with chickens when presenting agricultural stories to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1042&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Snow in October!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The forecast just kept getting worse, so we spent the day battening down the hatches. Split up the last cord or so of oak, stacked it out of the way, and tarped it over. Schlepped some random half-rotting hunks of pine out of the way. Picked up this and that in the yard. Used plastic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pics from cidering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two bins of drops we bought from Brackett&#8217;s had set in the shade for a week, and required some picking through. The washing crew requests a pedal-powered apple washer for next year. Um and Pops surveyed the scene while tub after tub of apples met their fate: The post-crushers eject finely shaved and mashed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1024&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cider Year Seven: 183 gallons in about six hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from Five Islands; a full report will follow when I can get some pictures, but Cider Weekend was fantastic. The weather was great, light overcast and still on Saturday with just a few sprinkles in the afternoon, then beautifully sunny today. Things were a bit chaotic, but as best we can tell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=575588&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=fiveislandsorchard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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