I've always loved the concept of using animals as lawn mowers. Since well before we had any animals I dreamed of ruminants grazing the lawn and never having to worry about a mower. So when I saw our pals at Rough Draft Farmstead posting about their Lambmowers and simultaneously engaging...
Walking the herd back to pasture for the first time. About a week ago we decided to combine the baby goat herd with the big goat herd. For the past 16 weeks the babies were managed separately as we slowly weaned them off milk and transitioned them to a grassfed...
The first time I hooked a hose up... I wasn't about to wait for the trenches to be filled in Last winter we applied for what's known as an "EQIP" grant. EQIP stands for Environmental Quality Incentives Program and is sponsored by the USDA. Within the USDA, the funding comes...
Fresh, raw milk cow cheese, made in a similar fashion to Chevre (commonly known as Goat Cheese) As a follow-up to the first post on raw milk (Buying Raw Milk in Tennessee), I thought it would be useful to provide a list of questions that we feel are prudent for...
I haven't written one of those boring Farm Flows posts in a while, so I thought I better get back on it. Actually, we've received a bunch of questions about the economics of soapmaking and whether it can sustain a small farm, such as ours. We love that so many...
You've probably noticed that we're big fans of rotational grazing. The goats, the cows, and now the pigs are all rotated around our property inside their own electric fences. While gaining in popularity, this method of livestock management is very uncommon. Yet it makes a lot of sense, if you...
The girls enjoying the broomsedge. They love broomsedge roots, a new benefit to that "noxious weed"! We've long detailed the onboarding experience of the Ossabaw pigs at Little Seed Farm. What was once envisioned as pigs rooting through the pasture quickly turned into a pallet-pen welcome package that was to...
