Milkweed & Teasel

I finally gave up trying to sleep at 4 a.m. this morning, worrying about hay and goats and weather.  Of course I woke my husband to get his ...

Meet "Goat" - She is my new, as yet unnamed, goatling. She's one of two goatlings I bought yesterday; the other bough...

Tamar at Starving Off the Land issued a challenge to us fellow home producers : meet 20.12% of your calorific needs in 2012. Curious to see...

According to the calendar, those of us in the northern hemisphere are in the dog days of summer, technically referring to Sirius the dog sta...

Yesterday was Mike's 48th birthday. With an estate full of young pheasants he had to work of course, but he came home for a special birt...

These are a couple of the borders in the garden where I work. There are no chickens. Gardens - Chickens = These are a couple ...

Ewe Two died yesterday. Waiting for handouts She contracted pneumonia. When I called the vet I could tell by his voice that the...