Friday, August 19, 2022

Farm Stand Fun

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One of the things I love about where I live is that, recent development notwithstanding, it is still rural enough that there are dozens of ...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

Balking a Buck (Apron Antics)

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Breeding season is here.  It seems awfully early, being still high summer, but the days are getting shorter and that is the signal that sen...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

The Pantry Project (Ice Cream Edition)

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Ran across an ice cream maker at Goodwill the other day, and it reminded me that ice cream is a wonderful way of preserving the products of ...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

They’re BAAAAAAACK (Prey Animal Strategy)

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Right before bed, I decided to go out and check on the goats one more time, on the off-chance that mama Clio had found her babies. I was fai...

The End, I Think

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I’m done. Lost TWO more baby goats today, presumably to coyotes. I came home from work and Clio’s twins are gone. They were born just a week...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Project Pantry (Meatballs and Morels)

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Today’s dinner - kinda sorta Swedish meatballs but not really. I had a pound of ground venison from the gleaner’s  pantry that I wanted to ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2022

Meet the Herd

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Clio (pregnant first freshener) with her mom Bitsy.  Buck of many names. In keeping with our tradition of using weather or atmospheric or sp...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Cajeta (The Best Thing You Can Do With Goat’s Milk)

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This time of year, I am usually drowning in milk. 2022 is a bit of an anomaly, because the only two goats in milk are the two young first f...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Project Pantry (Poor Man’s Soufflé)

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Episode two of Project Pantry, my occasional feature where I describe a recent home cooked meal and detail which ingredients came from wher...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Herb Harvest 2022

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Mint is one of my favorite herbs, not only for its zingy flavor and medicinal qualities, but because it’s a hardy perennial that’s damn near...
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Monday, May 16, 2022

Another One for the Coyotes (Attempts at Fence-Fixing)

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Ever since the coyotes took Cosmos from the main barn during the night, we’ve been locking up the two remaining babies in the smaller, secur...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Coyote Blues (Adios Cosmos)

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I thought we were going to have a great year for baby goats. Last year was just terrible, we lost three out of four babies. But this year, ...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

Pasture Puzzle (All Flesh is Grass)

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This year the grass has been slow to start growing. It’s been a very cold, wet spring. But finally, nearing the end of April, after months ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

First Babies of 2022 (Bitsy Babies)

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Bitsy surprised us today by quietly popping out twins with no fanfare this evening. We had just finished trimming all the hooves - a horribl...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Spring Chickens

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We got some baby chicks. Now that we have a coop for chickens so close to the house - right inside the fenced backyard - and can be reasonab...