What are those things?   You’ve probably seen them.  The weird, foam balls that suddenly appear on stems and branches in the later part of summer.  As a kid, you might have taken a stick and stabbed it to see what, […]

With winter setting in, I want to showcase this hoophouse.  The design was an idea inspired from The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Growers Handbook.  We bought a hoop bender from Johnny Select Seeds to shape the metal pipes and criss-crossed rope along the […]

Goats are companion animals, which means that they do best when having someone to share the pasture with.  However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that keeping male and female goats together is a great idea.  While there are times when they can roam […]

Cooking over an open fire, roasting marshmallows and hot dogs, heating your house with a wood stove, boiling maple sap, etc.  It requires logs that have been chopped into fire wood. I’m busy and that means that I like efficiency.  Chopping logs […]

I talked about deep bedding very briefly in an earlier post, Temporary Barn Idea.  For this post, I’m going to go into more detail about it. Deep bedding is, simply put, the continual addition of new bedding on top of old, soiled […]

Meet Bugsy.  Aptly named because she bugs me. And she’s in heat… Because we are planning on a lot of projects for the coming spring and summer, we decided not to breed all of our goats.  That, unfortunately, means that we are […]

Well, it snowed! That is supposed to be our road.  Overall, we got close to sixteen inches.  16!  The question, then, becomes:  What is the best way to bring hay to the animals?  My husband has his method that works in deep […]

With winter setting in, I want to showcase this hoophouse.  The design was an idea inspired from The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Growers Handbook.  We bought a hoop bender from Johnny Select Seeds to shape the metal pipes and criss-crossed rope along the […]