New parents huddled over their keets in the rain The influx of baby animals continues. This time with the first actual births on the farm. Our broody guinea hen hatched out her eggs. Of the five remaining eggs, three hatched. If you remember, she started with 23 of her own eggs...
Our little baby kiko goat Scrapple was wrapping up the typical chores on Tuesday night. Just finished moving the cows to a new paddock. Brought water out to everyone. Gave the pigs some whey that was left over from the day’s cheesemaking. Just as he was stepping into the truck...
Blue Not everything goes as planned on the farm. Before moving to Tennessee we put in over a year’s worth of research and planning to make the start-up as “smooth” as possible. Since then lots of stuff has gone according to plan, but just as much has not. Things not...
When I started looking at the first milking does to bring on to the farm, namely Bridget, I joked with my Mom and some friends and family that I was going to meet "the future Mother of our kids". My mom, having as weird a sense of humor as I...
At sunrise, Guinea Cent and the four new "house keets" raid the new garden space we made with visiting friends this past week. We made a mini permaculture "food forest" with a fig tree, blueberry bushes, and comfrey.
Our broody guinea hen is still gettin' broody. She's entering her fourth week, which should be the final week. Luckily, she chose a nice shady spot because she also chose the middle of heat-wave to sit on those eggs. About a week ago I noticed her off the nest looking down...
At the risk of my Dad taking his truck back, I post for your weekend viewing pleasure Sabine and her undying love for jumping on the truck. She's the only one that does it, and not too frequently, but when she gets going she's impossible to stop. A goat determined...
The drought takes its toll. The bottom of a "pond" dries up. Right now our area is anywhere from 30-50% behind average annual rainfall. The ground “crunches” when you walk on it. There’s still plenty of green rose bushes, lespedeza and other plants that can tolerate the drought, but all...
