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...
We've been building a hoop house for hay storage this winter. It's almost finished - we'll be starting on the end walls today!
Rotational Grazing "Rotational grazing" means controlling when and where an animal grazes by moving the animals between grazing locations (aka paddocks) on a regular basis. For us, we move our goats to a new paddock every 3-7 days. This is very rare for goats, which are normally managed in confinement...
Goat's-eye view Fencing is what I spend the most time doing (and thinking about) on the farm. That's probably why I bore our readers with posts about fencing so frequently. My time is split between so many different things that saying one thing dominates another is hard to do, but...
Three eggs pleaseOne of the first things that pops out of guest’s mouths when they visit the farm is an idea about something we could be doing. Farms are very inspiring and we go through the same thing all the time. Multiple times per day one of us will blurt...
There comes a time in every goat's life when this essential skill is learned... HEADBUTTING! Willow's lessons have begun at the hands of the four 7-month-old Nubians. Here is one of her first attempts with Blackstrap Becky as sparring partner:
Always many treasures to be found in the "red barn" (aka dilapidated shack).
In actuality, this should be titled making something out of a giant bramble of blackberry, honeysuckle, wild rose and poison ivy. When we first found our place it had been uninhabited for over 2 years. With 35+ inches of rainfall per year things can grow pretty fast. Needless to say,...
