Get Out There and Do the Work!
I want to take some time to write about the challenges and rewards of being a small-scale farmer while also working a fulltime off-farm job.…
Pure Healthy Pastured
Category Getting Started with the Farm
Experimenting with Biochar (the freaky s#$%)
Spring is almost here! On our farm we are constantly improving everything we can regarding care of our animals and care of our land, and one exciting new way we are working to do just that is through the use…
I Fought the Donkey and the Donkey Won
Tanya vs farm animal… here we go again. Grab a blanket, get comfy, and enjoy the story. I will preface this by saying that the donkey did not attack me. Jasper is a good donkey. He is very intelligent. He…
Death on the Farm
Last week was a hard week. We lost three animals in the same amount of days. So sad. It all started on Tuesday night, when CJ went to put the egg laying chickens in the coop. We had been letting…
Farm Update for August 18th, 2020
Things are moving right along here on the farm! Jasper got a little attention here recently. We had the farrier out to take a look at his hooves and he got a nice new pedicure. He was not impressed.…
Cow Update June 19th, 2020
Happy Friday! Cow Cow is still improving and doing great! We almost had an adventure here today, but thanks to my quick thinking (ok, maybe more like begging God to have mercy), the crisis was averted! Today brought a slight…
Farm Life
Things are going great here on the farm! Cow Cow is doing much better and getting heathier every day! Once his nutrition is under control, we need to move on to other things with him. At some point we…
Cow Cow Update
Good things to report! Cow Cow has improved significantly in only a matter of days! We started off with 2 quarts of milk, twice a day. I do have to mix the formula carefully, since the milk replacer is so…
We needed a new Mobile Coop for our Hens
The chicks are almost ready for the pasture. Their feathers are coming in and they are no longer the fragile little yellow chicks we picked up just a couple weeks ago. They will be divided up amongst the three chicken…
The Chicks Have Arrived!
New Chicks! Today has been a day, let me tell you! This post is long. Just like my day. There is just no short way to describe it. Buckle in and enjoy the farm life ride…. Yesterday we picked…
