Meet the newest addition of the farm.  This little heifer surprised us with a speedy arrival.  We left for a quick errand and returned forty minutes later to find this little girl up and nursing.  I made a point to check on […]

Introducing new chickens, whether young or old, is always a nail biter.  The established flock want to make sure their dominance is known and, so, peck and chase the new additions like vicious meany-heads. This is considered normal and expected. BUT There […]

It was always the plan to have an outdoor playset for our daughter to have fun on while we got outside work completed.  While most playsets are pre-designed, pre-cut, and boxed all ready to go with instructions to make everything that much […]

Oh, no! The ground is covered in feathers!  Have we lost a chicken? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, … No.  But, wait!  There’s more. The chickens’ shiny plumage is thinning, Mr. Rooster has lost his magnificent tail feathers, and the egg […]

Leave it to a five-year-old to come up with this ingenious idea. Also, I feel I need to apologize for hardly posting in the last couple of weeks.  I ended up on the wrong side of a goat fight and my fibula […]

Oh, no! Leaves turning yellow? Hardly any, if any, flower buds? Your lemon tree might need a fertilizer boost. Lemon trees, in general, prefer slightly acidic and well drained soil.  One trick that I do is pour my left over coffee (black!  […]

When we first signed up to be fosters for animals at the local humane society, our family planned on only fostering dogs and puppies.  However, kitten season means the shelter gets multiple calls a day for kitten intakes.  Many of those kittens […]

When most people think of chives, they picture the grassy plant with pink, puffball shaped flowers.  There are, in  fact, two main varieties of chives:  Onion chives and garlic chives.  Both are members of the Allium family. Onion chives have the pink […]

  When we first moved to the farm, there was only a small pole barn.  At 30 foot by 40 foot and with a cement floor, we decided to use half of it for hay storage and placed large, rubber mats on […]

Num num!   Back in March, I made a post talking about trimming figs to optimize fig production rather than leaf production, Trimming Fig Trees.  So, after trimming my trees, how were the figs producing? Let’s see: These pictures are from July.  […]