Gozer, putting the moves on Tijeras A few months ago, Scrapple and I had a little kitchen table meeting to strategize our first breeding season. We decided that we would aim to kid at the beginning of April. By that time the grass is growing and the sun is warm...
Through the woods I went this week, hunting for Lion's Mane. It's a delicious edible mushroom that looks like something from Dr. Seuss' imagination. Please please do not eat mushrooms that you find in the woods (or in your yard) until you have been trained to ID them (googling...
Pig Maze? While we're on the topic of letting wild animals loose, I might as well write about what the pigs have been up to. They aren't yet roaming in electrically fenced areas like the bucks (and the rest of our animals), but they're getting there.
This isn't a happy post. Nor a post about how to fence cows with polywire. Corrina, the day we got herWe had our first big loss on the farm today. Corrina, our 10 month old heifer cow died. More accurately, she strangled to death. Farming isn't always pleasant, although most...
The two buddies, grazing together in the forest, makes me happy Today was a big day for the bucks (and us too). They got a paddock outside of their pen so they could browse and graze in the forest. Prior to today, I would chop down saplings and bring them fresh...
When we explain to people that we drink milk from our own goats pretty much no one from the city blinks. It sounds normal. Get a dairy animal, get milk from it, drink the milk. The reality is that the iconical vision of the happy, dairy animal is extremely far...
Our plan when we moved to the farm was to start construction on a licensed creamery for making cheese. We postponed those plans as we settled in. It was clear that we needed a full season to focus on growing our herd and continuing to develop our cheesemaking and animal...
