Our Handmade Lavender, Lemon Verbena, and Oat Goat's Milk Soap The first visitor on the farm from my family was Gram. My Gram has always been the "cool Grandma"... Her seemingly uncanny understanding of what was "in" with the kids (she taught High School English) was bolstered in my awkwardly...
Sophie, the Maremma puppy, looking particularly sleepy Last night was the first rowdy coyote night we've had. It started around dusk with a couple coyotes howling. The dogs went nuts, obviously, running to the perimeter of the farm where the noise came from. With rainfall down dramatically this year water's...
Towing the Guinea Mobile out to pasture. It dual purposes as a shelter and shade shack for goats and guard dogs Most of our readers are probably familiar with egg mobiles. Egg mobiles are the glorified apparatuses used by famed alternative farmer Joel Salatin and many other small-scale farmers to...
Janis, showing us how she really feels...When stuff like the piglet escapade happens everything else on the farm stands still. No goats need milking, no pastures rotating, meals cooking, gardens weeding.
Sophie and the Herd on a misty morning this past week.
We've been lucky enough to have not one, but three visitors here on the farm for the past few days and man has it been a treat! Scrapple's sister came for the week on Monday and two of our friends from the city arrived on Thursday. It has been so...
Back corner field, half-full of hay bales We’ve been posting a lot of photos over on Instagram recently, including the one above. If you use that app you should follow us. Sweetbreads takes some great photos throughout the day. I get to live vicariously through her updates, it’s fun....
In New York we ate a lot of Highland beef. In fact, we even had Highland steaks on the menu at our wedding. Highland burgers are the best burgers I’ve eaten, period. We really wanted to raise them on our farm. However, we were a little worried that the breed...
