It's spring on the farm and we've got babies poppin' out everywhere. Today Bianca farrowed her litter of piglets. Of course, she chose a day where the high temp has been 50 degrees and it's been pouring rain. She looked ready yesterday, so I figured today or tomorrow would be...
What we stand for: Raising and serving our community healthy, nutrient-dense food Providing our animals with a natural and humane environment Using nature to guide our animal husbandry practices Seeking methods that limit the use of outside inputs Adopting practices that utilize the full cycle of nature and minimize waste
The final two As of this afternoon we are officially past our first goat kidding season. Mayday, one of our original does, gave birth to a beautiful little doeling and quite possibly the cutest buckling we've ever seen. Our grand total comes to 10 kids with 7 doelings and 3...
Milk lips. Ready for a napCalima and Chinook, born to Zephyr (names of winds) We're in the midst of our own version of March Madness. Goat Birthing Madness! Finally, a week after we posted about Sandia, our first goat born on the farm, we're getting a little breather and have...
Sandia, Little Seed's first official goat baby :) On Tuesday we had our first goat birth on the farm! She was born to one of our Nubian first fresheners, Tijeras. (A first freshener is a goat that has not previously kidded). We weren't expecting her arrival until today so you...
First package style from 2013 and we are still making soap in 2017! We've heard this refrain from a number of customers recently. Most of them are already reordering for a second or third time. Clearly, it's a huge compliment and we couldn't be happier with the customer feedback thus...
After over 1.5 years of writing blog posts under our offal pseudonyms we finally came to the conclusion that it's time to use our own names. Hell, it's almost Spring, why not start it off with a bang?
It is almost time! Ever since we bred the goats this past October, I've been counting down to their due dates. The anticipation has increased many fold since drying them off early in January. For the past few months our schedule has been wildly different than our previous days on...
