Soap Making: Our First Milk Soaps
This year has definitely turned into the ‘year of the goat’ on the farm. Even with only a single doe in milk this season, the presence of a milking doe in the barn has been a rather life-altering event. Twice a day milking had to be factored into our daily...
Goat’s Milk Pancakes
As this spring’s goat kids get closer to being weaned, we now have some extra goat milk at our disposal. I was inspired the other day to actually cook breakfast, instead of resorting to my more predictable breakfast fare. I don’t make pancakes much any...
Lotus & Minnie: On the Road Again
It’s dairy goat show season! No sooner were the cucumbers planted, than our trowels were traded for clippers, and we found ourselves driving around Northern California to the first two goat shows of the season. The only thing I think we were missing on the farm...
While the Farmer’s Away…
I once posted about the plight of the Pacific Madrone trees on the property. Many of the trees in our woodland areas are weak and diseased as a direct result of decades of poor land and forest management. This last weekend, while attending our first dairy goat show of...
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