{"id":5975,"date":"2020-11-23T18:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2020-11-23T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:32:37","slug":"for-farmer-clayton-spinney-of-jefferson-maine-its-all-about-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2020\/11\/23\/for-farmer-clayton-spinney-of-jefferson-maine-its-all-about-the-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"For Farmer Clayton Spinney of Jefferson, Maine, It\u2019s All About the Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Farmer
Clayton Spinney Keekionga Farm II in Jefferson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Ellen S. Gibson<\/em><\/p>\n

Clayton Spinney grew up on a dairy farm and says that his father \u201ccould do anything with anything.\u201d Clayton doesn\u2019t think he has inherited that trait from his father, but the variety of work he does around the farm tells a different story.<\/p>\n

Clayton graduated from the University of New Hampshire with an associate degree in animal science. He has lived on his farm, Keekionga Farm II, in Jefferson for 30 years. He raises a variety of animals– beef, sheep, and Mangalitsa pigs. His animals come first. \u201cI took a vacation back in 1990. I didn\u2019t like it and I haven\u2019t been on one since.\u201c<\/p>\n

2020 was his first year having a market garden and the first year growing in a 30\u2019 X 72\u2019 high tunnel.\u00a0 \u201cLearning about growing in a high tunnel is an education all in itself,\u201d he said. He attended Maine AgrAbility\u2019s Boots to Bushels (B2B) in 2020 to learn more. He grew cherry tomatoes and eggplants inside the tunnel and \u201cthey did very well.\u201d He had a small CSA and found an outlet for the extra eggplants and cherry tomatoes in Freeport.<\/p>\n

On participating in B2B, he said \u201cIt gives you more people to fall back on, to work with, to ask questions.\u201d Clayton does think B2B can help to create networks in the veteran community, \u201cThe farmer veterans all help each other out. That\u2019s really important. We share a camaraderie. We all work together.\u201d Anne Devin, Maine AgrAbility\u2019s veteran outreach coordinator is the mover and shaker behind B2B and helped connect Clayton to the program, \u201cI can\u2019t say enough good things about Anne. She\u2019s my \u2018go-to\u2019 girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the website to learn more about B2B 2021<\/a> or contact Anne Devin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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