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, April 28, 2011

A Mess for Every Season (Blessed Be the Mess!)

I am a lackadaisical housekeeper. Some people would call me slovenly, but I don't care for that kind of person and so they don't get...

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Cheesy Success!

It;s just about suppertime, so I have no time at the moment for a detailed explanation, but I have FINALLY created a reasonable facsimile of...

Monday, April 25, 2011

Meet Edith (New Blood in the Herd)

Following the death of my little black and white doeling (http://newtofarmlife.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-one-really-hurts-bad-year-for-baby...

Monday, April 18, 2011

Plodding Along

There hasn't been a whole lot going on here, we're just plodding along through this cold spring. The weather has finally turned a co...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Letter to the Vetrinarian

I got the results of the necropsy on Sunshine. Here is the letter I wrote to my vet's office: To whom it may concern: On Monday April 11...

This One Really Hurts (Bad Year for Baby Goats)

Sunshine is dead. She was the doeling from Flopsy's triplets. The prettiest goat, the one we had decided to keep, the spotty doeling I...

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Custer General Store (You Might be a Redneck if....)

Custer General Store - Open 125 Years There's not much to Custer, the tiny town a few miles away from us. No gas station, no bank, no fa...

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Mushroom Mistake (Win Some, Lose Some)

Verpa Bohemica, also known as the early morel, split to show how the cap is unattached to the stem except at the top: a true morel is attach...

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Rhubarb Ho! (Thanks, Sis!)

My sister gave me a bunch of plants the other day. Years ago, she moved into a house that previously belonged to VERY serious gardeners, and...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Not Another One!

This morning, the last-born buckling of Flopsy's new triplets was laid out flat off in a corner by himself. I thought he was dead, but n...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Triplet Trifecta

Flopsy and the "twins" Bad presentation: Head alone, feet back. I had to pull this kid, but she's fine now. Mama goat love. Fl...

Friday, March 25, 2011

Stinging Nettle Soup (Wild Spring)

For a long time, I've been interested in foraging wild foods. I've collected a fair number of field guides and amassed a prett...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Spring Chores

A small break in the weather these last few days has allowed me to get a few chores done. I bought a grapevine off Craigslist and planted it...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Bad Bee News; Baby Broilers

About a month ago, we had a windstorm. That's not news; we have windstorms every couple of weeks from October on every winter. We live o...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Greenhouse Update (High Hopes)

Greenhouse from the Outside Greenhou...

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