Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

Squirrel proof.

I paid extra for the bird feeder with a squirrel guard. But who sells a guinea guard?

Spring showers.

The spring garden hasn’t been planted yet.  Even though the spring solstice has come and gone. The chicken wire hasn’t been pulled up from the backside of the pond yet.  Even though the sunshine and spring rain has brought a flush of new growth in the brambles and sawgrass on the dam. The post holes […]

To be continued…..

You’ve heard the news.  Owning animals is proven to extend your life.  Researchers speculate about oxytocin and cortisol interactions, companionship, and responsibility.  Which just means they’re missing the big picture.  Obviously, people live longer because they are determined to live to see the day that the dog doesn’t manage to get into the trash can […]

Who needs Six Flags?

Apparently people pay a lot of money for ups and downs.  I mean, a lot of money.  Like $25 a ticket to ride the roller coaster again and again.  And again. I can imagine what that roller coaster feels like.  I can almost hear the click-clack-clicking of the coaster inching up the track when one […]

When Bad Chores Happen To Good Farmers.

Not every day around here involves newborn goat kids or picking the first sweet snap peas off the trellis.  Sometimes we are following a trail of blood drops into the barn to discover a goat with her eyelid split open. Or applying butt salve to the rear end of the guardian dog after he broke […]

The Farm Abhors a Vacuum (But the Ducks Love a Mud Puddle).

Ah, don’t you love a day off.  I didn’t have anything planned for today except for 2 cups of coffee and a morning news show.  Yes, I had to make some cheese.  And finish emptying the boys’ bedroom in preparation for work on the house addition.  At some point, the broken microwave had to be […]

The Secret.

The milk fridge is full.  And the girls keep right on givin’.  Which is because, unlike a lot of farms, we have some goats who kid in the spring and some that kid in the fall.  So we have sweet, fresh milk even through the dark winter months when a lot of herds are dried […]

Happy Thanksgiving.

Some joys on the farm never grow old.

I win! (today)

Round bales of hay are very convenient.  And wasteful.  Perhaps they are fine for cows and horses.  But goats tear huge long strips off the roll.  They eat two mouthfuls of the strip and then trample the rest of it around the barn.  So eventually I have to haul away huge loads of nasty hay […]

Perennial Labor

There’s a whole to of work to be done in the garden.  All the support cages and stakes need to be pulled up and stacked neatly for the winter.  The soaker hoses need to be dug up, patched, and rolled into pretty coils.  The herbs need to be divided and transplanted.  Compost from the barnyard […]

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