Milkweed & Teasel

It's no Hurricane Sandy, but we've got howling winds and driving sleet now. One turkey is sick with a mystery virus, my oldest ewe l...

Some readers have asked to see Grumpy the ewe in her stocks - Although she seems to feel that it's a punishment and humiliation I...

Ewe 2836 lambed at 6 am this morning. The whole village knows this because she started calling for her lamb even before it was born. It'...

Finally. And it was anything but straightforward. The first lamb was a ewe, and it had a front leg folded back so I dug around and got it in...

Yesterday was the annual Harvest Festival in our village, a pot luck supper in the village hall where we "locals" come together to...

I had to earn my Farmer in Training t-shirt today. Our first arrival of this year's lambing season was listless and, when I checked on ...

Babies come when they're ready, not when the book says. My grumpy ewe gave birth early this morning, on the tail end of a horrendou...