Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

Renovations.

A rainy day is usually an excellent reason to avoid farm chores.  But since my other choice was to clean the red mold growing in the bathroom, I rushed outside to the barn to find something to do.  Luckily, I didn’t have to look very hard to find a list of things to do in […]

A Farm Day To Remember.

It started out in the usual way.

The High Price of Milk.

Last year my haphazard breeding program led to goat kids being born in March, May, and July.  Also to having to guess by color which buck sired which kid.  Or determining if kids were old enough to be weaned or ready for their first round of CD&T by whether or not Pretty wrote about their […]

It happened to me.

I don’t know how it happened. I really don’t. After all, I’ve never owned a creamer pitcher shaped like a cow. Or salt and pepper shakers shaped like geese. I don’t have tissue box covers that look like barns. Or a milk bucket for an umbrella stand. My curtains do not have roosters on them. […]

It’s On.

It happens on occasion.  A predator stumbles upon our farm and discovers that: 1.  There is a plastic container of dog food kept on the deck.

Weeding

Don’t be fooled.  Farming is not as scientific as it is intuitive.  It takes sensitivity.  Attentiveness.  A discerning eye.  Not just everyone has this ability.  Take weeding the garden, for example.  Some people will say that weeding should be done a little bit every day.  At least every week.  I don’t know about you, but […]

Guineas Gone Wild.

**Note from the author:  OK, so I forgot to post Part 2 and Part 3 of  my article for Farm To Table.  There have been some complaints whining questions from people who want to know how it all ended.  So I am posting the article in its entirety below.  Please be aware that this article […]

How (Not) to Deliver a Baby Goat Properly.

1.  Disregard your training.  Just because every goat owner you know will assist a birth if the doe doesn’t deliver within an hour of serious labor, doesn’t mean that you should.  Wait.  Wait some more.  Feel free to sit with your goat when she starts pushing at 8pm, let her push until 11pm, fall asleep […]

Check it out!

Farm to Table Online asked me to write a humor column.  I promptly sent them a submission that was so long they had to divide it into 3 parts.  They were kind enough not to mention my inability to edit myself appropriately.  Each part will be published on Monday for the next 3 weeks.  Here […]

Preservation Society

There’s a lot of beauty in the wilderness.  But when the pasture along the farm drive starts to look like this…

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