Fodder Harvest Day!
Today, the wheat fodder is ready to harvest! All animals get 2% of their body weight in fodder. But since it is winter, and there have been very few greens […]
Today, the wheat fodder is ready to harvest! All animals get 2% of their body weight in fodder. But since it is winter, and there have been very few greens […]
Well, after the tragic carnage of the last month, it was looking like some of the guinea pigs were pregnant, including Charcoals baby that was born in June. Well, Oreo […]
Well, I haven’t posted because the homestead has suffered from a major setback. Because of that one day of wind chill below zero, I have lost all of the baby […]
This weekend, the temperature was in the 70s, and it was damp and raining. Last night, the windchill (a term nearly foreign to NC), was hovering at 0. Below freezing […]
On January 4th, 2015, three new babies were born! They are my first babies of the new year. These guys are around 0.2 lbs, and are utterly gorgeous! I am […]
I did some major shuffling of the homestead recently. I moved the pigs into a more shaded corner of the yard that stayed a bit drier. With this Pacific Northwest […]
Over a 6 week process, I got to know 10 girls very well, and I am very proud of the work that they did for planning the garden. I thought […]
Today was a day for transformations! During early April, the girls got together and we created concrete “badges” to permanently decorate our “sash”. and leave our mark on the project […]
Well, I am like over a year behind on the writing of this blog (life is busy, and actually running my programs take precedent to writing about them.) I will […]