Spring Season of Rebirth at Flat Point Farm
Arnie Fischer and sister Eleanor Neubert outside the new barn.
Arnie Fischer and sister Eleanor Neubert outside the new barn.
Chicken coop is bustling with new flock.
Chicken coop is bustling with new flock.
Eleanor sorts eggs.
Eleanor sorts eggs.
New barn was designed around the needs for farming: hay storage, sheep shelter, egg processing and selling, vegetable seeding.
New barn was designed around the needs for farming: hay storage, sheep shelter, egg processing and selling, vegetable seeding.
Goat milk soap made by Emily Fischer will be sold across the Island.
Goat milk soap made by Emily Fischer will be sold across the Island.
Bluefaced leicester-montadale sheep free range around Flat Point Farm.
Bluefaced leicester-montadale sheep free range around Flat Point Farm.
Arnie Fischer tends to the land.
Arnie Fischer tends to the land.
Amish crew from Lancaster, Pa. raised the new post and beam barn.
Amish crew from Lancaster, Pa. raised the new post and beam barn.
Signs of new life were in evidence all through the open meadows that sprawl along the banks of Tisbury Great Pond.
Signs of new life were in evidence all through the open meadows that sprawl along the banks of Tisbury Great Pond.
A year after a fire at Flat Point Farm, as the first days of spring approach, a new flock of eight bluefaced leicester-montadale sheep have been introduced, along with new hope for the future of the farm.