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.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Thistle Situation

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The end of July, and already it's been a long hot summer. I think the heat may have peaked yesterday (at 101 degrees!!!) but it's no...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Trade Network Week Eight

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Today the kale fairy gave me: 3 gallon sized ziploc bags of various types of greens (2 kinds of kale and some chard) 2 gallons salad greens ...
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Flopsy Update #3

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Hooray! Finally, this morning, I got all the milk out of Flopsy's right side (not left, as previously, erroneously written). Along with ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Flopsy Update #2

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I can't milk her! This morning, milk came out. Tonight, nothing! Just a drop or two. The teat is plugged solid. The bag is tight. Aack! ...
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Flopsy Update

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The vet says Flopsy has an injury in the teat. Maybe somebody stepped on it, or maybe I injured it myself trying to squeeze out the infected...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Mastitis

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Flopsy has mastitis in her left teat. I'm taking her to the vet today. So far she's had two doses of IM penicillin and two doses of ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

A Very Good Dog

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                                                                      Rowan and Ivory At about 8 o'clock this morning, the goats got awa...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Saturday Farmer's Market Trade

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I love the saturday farmer's market.  This week I was two eggs short of four dozen (so many broody hens!), so I also threw in a half pou...
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Be Prepared

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Due to all the reading I've been doing on the internet since I started this blog, I've begun a slow, inexorable descent into paranoi...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Trade Network Week Seven and Delicious Chicken

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I don't know what week it is. But today the Kale Fairy gave me two heads of red leaf lettuce, a gallon sized ziploc bag of mixed salad g...
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Chick Attrition

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I know there are plenty of people who raise chickens out there. Do your chicks suffer the terrible infant mortality rate that mine do? The f...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Chick Update

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Homero is opening eggs which he says are peeping. He is doing it on camera for his relatives in Oaxaca. Thank the Lord I haven't the tec...
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Remote Post - Heat and Chicks

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I'm frying down here in Tucson. Daytime temperatures have not dipped below 104 or so since I got here. Nightime temperatures hover in th...
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Monday, July 13, 2009

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Here is a picture of Homero's shop, as of the day before yesterday. It's even bigger now. For perspective, that's a pretty honki...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

High Summer Trade in High Gear

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Today I brought six dozen eggs to the farmer's market and came home with three pounds of pickling cukes, three bunches of chiogga beets,...
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