Our team wears a lot of hats on the farm—from managing livestock health to reading a spring pasture to ladling soft curds into molds. In each of the roles we fill, we choreograph a careful dance between craft and science, listening to the sensory cues we pick up through our hands & ears & eyes and weaving in quantitative learnings from soil tests & aerobic plates & pH meters. One of my favorite things about this dance is that it affirms multiple knowledges—the qualitative and the quantitative, the intuitive and the observable—and in turn, it offers us multiple ways of knowing our animals, our land, our pastures, and our relationships to each other.

With each newsletter, I'll share some of the technical, nitty-gritty tools we use on the farm throughout the season to care well for our flocks and herds, to create delicious cheese, and to be better stewards of the land we tend. And don't worry! There won't be scary equations or obscure jargon or confusing graphs—just a window into the brain of a farmer who moonlights as a data nerd and storyteller, who wants you to love science (almost) as much as they do.