April Garden Update: A Sizzling Spring

April Garden Update: A Sizzling Spring

The weather so far this year has been gorgeous. Although brisk in January and February, daytime temperatures have been quite warm for a number of weeks now, and we’ve had so little rain since January 1st (our driest start to the year on record), that winter is...
New Additions: White Zedoary

New Additions: White Zedoary

This spring has definitely ‘gone to the goats’. I promise, we do still have gardens, chickens, turkeys, and bees, but as we start to build up our dairy herd, we’re occasionally finding ourselves with new goat additions this spring. On Sunday, our...
Livestock Predators: Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

Livestock Predators: Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

For our regular readers it’s no shock that we have more than the average share of predators lurking near our poultry and livestock pens. In the six years we’ve been here though, we consider ourselves to have been relatively lucky, in that our losses have...