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 […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Oreo had a Baby
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 […]
Lost them all… And finally a fodder setup
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 […]
Everything is Frozen, and Three Lost Piggies
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 […]
Krinkle had Babies!
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 […]
New Setup and Buffy and Lisa’s Babies Into Growout
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 […]
Citizen Science Raingarden Transformation
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 […]
Citizen Science Good Earth Adventures: The Final Chapter
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 […]
Citizen Science Week 5: October 26-27th, 2013
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 […]
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