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...
Grandpa the Milkman We have our favorite animals around the farm (Bridget, Sophie, Elvis, etc), but we like to think we love all of our readers equally. However, one of them stands out as the clear favorite. He doesn’t actually “read” the blog, per se, but he hears every word...
Elvis is all about the crowing these days! His comb is finally starting to come in and it's as if he wants everyone to know "I"M A MAN!" ehm, or rooster as it may be... He still loves to face the barn wall for the accoustics but now also has...
