Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

We’re Professionals.

Everything we do has a reason.  All of our actions are the result of careful research, proven technique, and effective cost analysis.  We’re professionals. For example, we do not rescue unhatched eggs because we “feel bad” for them.  We accept the cycle of life.  The survival of the fittest.  We’re professionals.

Living with Lawyers

It’s tough being a Food Quality Inspector and Nutrition Enforcement Agent on a farm.  I honestly cannot imagine how the general public has the time or energy to engage in the controversy over raw milk and the safety of animal manure compost in organic farming.  After all, around here just getting through lunch, after school […]

Happy (Belated) Fourth of July

Guess what else I found?  My pictures from the Fourth of July!  I love the Fourth of July.  We go to the same small town parade every year.  By small town, I mean we drive 20 miles out into the country from our rural community to theirs.  That’s small. The parade starts at the center […]

Udderly Waiting

Waiting for the goat kids to be born next month is starting to bother me.  Even worse it’s starting to bother the goats.  Not the waiting part.  Just the part where I’m always following them around trying to check out their nether regions.  Why is it that when you want a goat to look you […]

King of the Mountain

There are some serious advantages to being a farm kid.  I don’t mean cleaning the coop in exchange for 30 minutes on the computer or getting paid 75 cents for every hour spent clearing the winter’s fallen branches out of the woods.  No, those are just the part of the everyday benefits.  Here we have […]

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