Our first miniature jersey calf was born on the farm last month which precipitated a lot of changes on the farm! Now our morning chores include milking a cow, processing that milk, and separating cream from the previous day’s milk. It’s been a fun adventure, to be sure.
This last year has been both the hardest and most rewarding. We moved into the garage, started living off water collection, finished the house and moved into it, bought sheep, halter trained a wild horse, bough pigs, created hay fields out of locust fields, wrote a book, built a pond… and found out that we were pregnant!
We have been raising friendly goats for about 5 years now and have experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly. We’ve been on farms where the goats run from you, bite at you, and kick and scream to get away from you. That’s not the type of farm we wanted to have! For the …
Ok guys, I messed up with our livestock guardian dog pups. Big time. I spent weeks and weeks reading every article and looking all over the internet trying to figure out what to do when bringing my two livestock guardian dogs home. But it was frustrating because everyone had such strong opinions: Don’t have them …
Bringing your livestock guardian dog home – what NOT to do! Read More »
After weeks of anxious anticipation and worry, the house is starting to go up! We’ve built so many houses together since we got married, but this is the first house we’ve built for ourselves. And to watch it take shape has brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion. I often think back …
It’s certainly been a whirlwind of a month around here! It seems like just yesterday we were all starry-eyed and looking at property. Now we have two weeks to finish building a house on the land we purchased. Can you believe it?! We purchased the 43-acre piece of land we fell in love with and …
One morning about 4 months ago, I was out walking to feed our goats (we have four acres on the edge of town). It was one of those perfect mornings. Overcast. You could feel the small tingles across your face and arms as the early morning mist settled on you. Even the birds seem muted, …
