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.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Notes from the Year of the Pandemic (Spring Equinox, 2021)

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  So far, spring this year is cold. There was a week of warm sun sometime in early March - there usually is - that tempted me to start shove...
Friday, March 5, 2021

Goodbye to a Great Goat (The End of an Era)

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      Iris gives the girls an early sex ed lesson, farm style My first goat was Iris, a beautiful Nubian about a year and a half old, a firs...
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Saturday, January 2, 2021

Still Here (Midwinter)

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Soon, I promise - promise myself - I will sit down and write a long update. Two months have passed since my last post, and so much has happ...
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Monday, October 12, 2020

Samhain Season Altar

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I’ve neglected my altar for many moons. Not for any particular reason - life just rushes in and gets in the way. Like everyone else’s, our ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Gourd Or Gargoyle?

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Every year, somewhere on the property, there will grow a volunteer squash plant. Usually the compost pile, of course. This year, one grew u...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

It’s Pear Time!

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We had a bit of a windstorm a couple days ago, and as usual, it knocked a bunch of pears off the trees. Went out and collected some today -...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Preserving Log (Late Summer 2020)

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I’ve been on an absolute tear in the kitchen the last two weeks. Late August/early September is the middle harvest season (Mabon is coming r...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Memorial Painting

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My memorial painting of Paloma with her sweet, deceased pet baby goat Stormy. I’m not a good painter by any means - in fact at some point d...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Hope Springs Eternal (More Babies)

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  Just a few days ago, we lost six baby chicks to drowning in the water trough. It was a tough reminder that babies need a special environme...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Death and Disaster (Bad Farmer, Good Grief?)

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A few days ago, Paloma told me something seemed to be wrong with Stormy, her extra-special pet baby goat, the surprise baby that Flopsy popp...
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Friday, August 7, 2020

Miracle Milk (Goats are Great)

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A neighbor of mine, S., recently had her first grandchild. Her daughter gave birth to a beautiful little boy. Although everything seemed fin...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

The Horns of the Dilemma (to Disbud or Not to Disbud)

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Seven A.M. on a Saturday. We are all peacefully asleep, dreaming the dreams of the innocent. There is no alarm clock set; we will wake when ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

High Cheese Season 2020 (Making Do)

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            A middle stage in the making of cheddar  In last week’s post on preserving, I forgot to include cheese. Cheese is kind of the wh...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Preserving Log (Early Summer Edition)

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I’ve fallen behind on my blogging, I’m afraid. Since the stay-at-home order was lifted early last month, I’ve been busier than a one-armed ...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Just Cute Goat Pictures

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Paloma and Flopsy’s baby boy. I can’t decide who is cuter.  My goat-totin’ man, totin’ Bitsy and Bootsy, Christmas’ two doelings.  Hope bei...
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