(Continued from Pago B 2)
has grooves and bubbles in it for
shaping kitchen cabinet handles.
“That’s the nice thing about
blacksmithing. You make what
you need.”
The Berger’s home and her
blacksmith shop are built from the
logs, timbers, and boards from an
old bam. It faces a man-made
pond where two mountain streams
;onvergc. Behind it is their root
cellar in the side of a bank, the
smokehouse, and the beginnings
of a sugar shack (for processing
maple syrup), being built by farm
manager Sean Fowler.
Sean came to the Blue Moon
Farm from C.onnecticut in
November 1992.
He said, “I manage the animals,
bale hay, keep the buildings and
BIGGER ALES.
WITHOUT A
IGGER
TRACTOR.
HERNLEY’S FARM EQUIPMENT. INC.
2095 S. Market St. Elizabethtown, Pa.
717-367-8867
STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE, INC.
Rts. 10 & 41 Cochranville, Pa.
215-593-2407
ZIMMERMAN’S FARM SERVICE
School Road, Rt. 1 Bethel. Pa,
717-933-4114
C.J. WONSIDLER BROS.
Finland Rd., Quakertown, PA
215-536-1935 / 215-536-7523
Rts. 309 & 100. New Tripoli, PA
610-7^7-7611
Blue Moon Farm
equipment in good shape. We are
striving to be more self sufficient,
but you need neighbors. We get a
good supply of com from our one
neighbor.”
When Sean first moved to the
farm, some land was swampy.
They enrolled in conservation
programs to build the pond and
some stone strips in drainage
areas. They also planted six fruit
trees and six Niagara grape vines.
Tenant farmers Sam and Katy
Reist live in the original log
exposed farmhouse. They sell
organic vegetables at the market
in Huntingdon and to regular cus
tomers who pay for a guaranteed
amount of vegetables throughout
the year.
The old bam with the. shingle
roof houses the barnyard mena
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When we designed the 540, we knew you wanted
a higher capacity round baler with versatility and conve
nience. We also knew you liked your tractor.
Truth is, you can keep your present tractor. Because
with the 540 attached, all you need is a minimum 45 PTO
hp tractor. We built the 540 with all the features of a large
baler but iij a compact, low-profile design. The direct-feed,
open-throat design makes for fast bale starts and easy
operation, and the variable chamber makes bales from 30"
to 51".
You'll be able to handle a wide variety of crops with
great maneuverability. All with your current tractor.
So stop in at your ACCO/Hesston dealer listed here
and ask about our flexible financing plans for the 540.
Or our wide selection of other equipment, all backed by
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way you look at hay fields forever.
STANLEY'S FARM SERVICE
RD 1, Box 46 Klingerstown. Pa.
717-648-2088
UMBERGER'S OF FONTANA, INC.
RD 4, Box 545 Lebanon. Pa.
717-867-2613
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THE PRIME LINE
gene. A greenhouse parallels, for
a short distance, the V* mile long
lane that connects the Blue Moon
Farm to the main road. Even with
the expressway not far from their
farm, the Bergers continue to
choose the road less traveled.
And, as Robert Frost says in his
poem The Road Not Taken, “I
took the one less traveled by. A nd
that had made all the differenc.'.”
If anyone is interested in oina
nental wrought iron work such as
is made at the Blue Moon Forge,
write to Judy Berger at Route 1,
Box 1 9f m, PA
16652.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair.
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood.
And I
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
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