New To Farm Life

A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Hooray for Black Mama Hen!

It worked! Last night around nine o' clock, Homero and I snuck out to the mama barn with a very small flashlight and as quietly as poss...

Monday, March 30, 2009

Bad News/Good News on the Chicken Front

I checked the calendar, and the eggs that the black hen has been sitting on were supposed to hatch four days ago. Clearly, they will never h...

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Victory is Mine (For Now)!

When I got back from my 8 hour trip into town, all the goats were still inside their enclosure.

Maybe Goats Should be Allowed to Run Free?

Since they can't be contained. Good Lord, I am royally sick of trying to contain my goats. The electric fence has been fixed again, and...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Stuff to Do With Too Much Beef

Rowan stopped eating beef. It's a mammal. That's fine with me, she's old enough to decide what she wants to eat (as long she dec...

Monday, March 23, 2009

Feeling Proud, And Tired

Many things got done this week, at least halfway done and some things got all the way done. The chicken coop, I personally hammered up three...

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Spring Cleaning, Take Two: Farm Style

Two men and a big, big machine (even though it's called a mini-excavator, I'd say it's pretty darn big) spent about eight hours ...

Friday, March 20, 2009

Electric Fences Are the Bane of My Existence.

I think our electric fence represents the poorest return on investment of anything on our farm. I've spent hundreds of dollars and waste...

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Spring Cleaning

Even back when I lived in a medium sized house on an ordinary city lot, spring cleaning was still a daunting proposition. Open up all the cl...

Saturday, March 14, 2009

MRSA with your Meat?

Another reason to seek out local meat from small scale producers, if you need one besides humane treatment of animals, supporting small farm...

Slow Week on the Farm

There's not much to do around here. I'm just twiddling my thumbs, waiting for it to finally, really be spring. The goats are still p...

Thursday, March 12, 2009

And Now There's Not Enough.

Last week I was drowning in eggs, and the food bank wouldn't take them, so I put an ad on Craigslist offering free eggs to families in n...

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

This may seem obvious, but....

Don't carry eggs in from the chicken coop in your bra. Why would I do such a dumb thing? Well, in my defense, it's not so easy to ca...

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Crafty Chickens

Today we found a hidden cache of eggs behind the hay bales in the momma barn. I must have left the window open one day. Eight of them. Nobod...

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Ham I Am

The pig is back. In his, shall we say, final form. I ran out to Keizer Meats yesterday to pick him up, in the small car, with the kids in th...

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