First things First… Supplies!
Well, first things first on the new homestead…. Need shelter, a fence to keep the dogs and rabbit beasts safe, and a rabbit barn to protect the rabbits from the […]
Category Archives: Update
Back online, off the grid!
Well, it has been way too long since I updated. After I lost 2/3 of my stock to a Clostridium contaminated feed, and I had a bunch of show quality […]
Targeted by the City Government
So, we chose to move to our city, Creedmoor, NC, because they had no animal restrictions. (Except no pigs). Working as a farm is difficult under most circumstances; however, we […]
Where are you Christmas?
90% humidity….. are you f $#@ing kidding me? It was 82 degrees today! I don’t know how much more the rabbits can take of this! The temperature dropped to 30 […]
The New Rabbit Barn
Well, it has been another crazy few weeks. After losing the buck to pasturella, i went through and gave everything a deep, deep clean, scrub, and samitization. It was unlikely […]
Ducks and Ducklings at Clarjo
A lot has been going on at Clarjo farms recently. Butchering, processing, packaging galore! But we managed to get a shipment of Pekin ducklings o. Thursday. 25 of them to […]
Some Days, You Feel Like Giving Up
Over the month of June the temperatures rise from 83°F to 88°F. Rabbits hate heat, but these temps aren’t awful. The bucks go sterile anyways. So, I didn’t feel guilty breeding back in […]
All the Things…
Why is it that I run out of cages right before I go on a work trip?! I am going to Duluth to present my dissertation research for five days. […]
Introducing Huey, Duey, and Louey
It is oppressively humid tonight, and I can see lighting flashing across the Western sky. Anyways, I wax poetic from time to time, but things are humming along on the […]
Rough Week for Producing
I was practicing herding with my dog, and all of a sudden, one of my female ducks lets out a horrible squack, and blood starts pouring out of her leg. […]
New Stopgap Rabbit Houses
Well, the roof is added and the three sides of the hutch I don’t need to access is surround in a double thick layer of heavy-duty plastic painters tarp. (I […]
Evil Winter Storm
Well, yesterday, I left to hang out with friends at around 5 pm, and all of a sudden, the wind descends onto the Piedmont (45-50 mph gusts). I got home […]
Hay and Wood
Who doesn’t like getting an entire trailerful of wood for $85 (including delivery)? Apparently, if the power goes out in a storm, our little town is one of the last […]
Lost a Baby Piggie and the Chosen Boar
Well, one of my baby piggies ended up with a URI, so I moved her into freezer camp. I really think it is something about the white piggies that makes […]
A STEM Podcast Featuring Me!
So, a few weeks ago, I was interviewed for a Women in STEM podcast, talking about my love for soil science, my Citizen Science Program, and the various people that […]
Bad Day on the Homestead
So, I went back up to WI where i came from on Thursday. I get a phone call that night that momma bunny and her two babies had died sometime […]
Two crop failures….
So, this year has been an awful year for Downey mildew in NC. The sorghum failed because it stopped raining, and the pumpkins were a casualty of mildew. I planted […]
New Digs and New Does!
After the unceremonious end to my last rabbitry (needed to liquidate stock after the landlord flipped out, even though we weren’t violating any city codes or laws). We officially have […]
My name is Pathetic Jo!
I don’t often chronicle my dogs… Frankly because there are so many awesome things to do on the homestead and with my research, that there is little time… But, moving […]
Homesteading is Mocking Me
There has been a lot of upheaval on the homestead as of late… What with the buying of a house (long story, and no, I wasn’t breaking any city codes […]
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