Well, we’ve started the blog for our ranch. 🙂 I’ll be moving all of my “homesteading” posts over there. So if you’re interested in the “Views from the farm” and updates on chicken and goats and so forth, you can join us there. 🙂 Eventually I hope to post tutorials on real food eating, cheese …
Category Archives: Homesteading
The Name Game
As I mentioned the other day, Stu and I compiled a list of possible names for our lil operation here. Turns out he is not a big fan of the word “homestead” and I can see the point. But I was a little hesitant to use the word “farm” either since in my mind a …
A View from the Farm
Goats on the prowl! 🙂 If I were a dried up, crunchy leaf, I’d be REALLY scared right now! 😉
A Sunday Date
Last Sunday Stuart and I escaped from the land of being parents by ditching all our kids to go to church without them! 🙂 Stu’s mom was kind enough to hang out with them, so no worries, they weren’t on their own. 😉 At one point during the day Stuart said, “Who would have thought …
(Jeopardy Theme)
So Polka’s due date (or one possible one) was the 9th. For some reason the time of her actual breeding wasn’t solid so it could have been the 9th OR maybe the 14th. Hmmm… Well, the 9th has come and gone, and she doesn’t seem to be in any hurry. Though she seems rather large …
Because it’s important to us
We are buying a whole grass feed Black Angus steer (he’ll look more like steak and such when we pick him up) and a 350lb organic pig… who will also not look like a pig when we pick her up. When Stu and I started listening to an audio book called “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How …
A view from the farm
My gift to me from our trip to CAL Feed! Fun fun store!! I could get lost in it for awhile! Mean time now my sensitive fingers will have some good ol leather protection while I work with our animals! 🙂
The Rest of the Story
My final trip down to the chicken coop on the day when I destroyed the girls favorite place to deposit eggs in secret, I found this! A beautiful sight! Little Red finally gave up the fight and “settled” for the old fashioned good ol’ nesting box! Yay! Tomorrow (although this will be yesterday by the …
She’s nothing if not tenacious
This chicky that I have named “Little Red” is desperate for a place to lay her egg. I’m not sure how long chickens can actually “hold it” but apparently they can for awhile. 😉 Poor little thing. She was trying to get busy on that coal-bucket nest when I discovered it. Apparently once they get …
Brilliant Deduction!
Yesterday I collected a measly 3 eggs from our nesting boxes. I had this nagging thought in my mind that maybe the makeshift nest that the girls were driven to use the other day had become the preferred nest. Oh dear. 🙁 So I tidied up their coop to make it as inviting as possible. …