We Have a Donkey!

With coyotes ever present around our farm, we have seen a need to be rid of them. As long as you have animals, you’ll have coyotes because animals are tasty. They have also been a viable threat to people, coming out at all hours during the day and night. One day...

We Finally Have a Floor…

When we moved to our farm, we had a house, overgrown pastures, and a cat. We began accumulating our “zoo”, one animal at a time. First came Daisy Jane…the service dog. Then Maizie…our young heifer, then Jaxon the foal, another dog, another cat,...

Zucchini, Zucchini Everywhere…

Of all the plants that we put in the garden this year, the zucchini has done beautifully. We planted 24 plants, and every single one came up and is producing like mad! Our garden pretty much consists of corn and zucchini this year as nothing else really survived. We...

Spring planting…

For the past two years I have tried, somewhat unsuccessfully, to have a garden. The soil here is really good, but the rain has been overwhelming. Year before last, three hours after I finished planting, we got monsoon type rains and I watched sadly, out the window, as...

Threshing the Wheat…

I have always been one who wants my chidren to learn things in the most natural way possible. I feel that the best lessons are learned in the garden and on the farm. I want them to understand that milk, meat, cheese, vegetables, flour, and even brown sugar and vanilla...

Farm Full Of Babies Again…

This year the babies come in the form of chicks, puppies, and calves. The chicks were kind of an experiment of sorts…we wanted to replace some that had died last year, so we gathered 37 eggs and hoped for the best. From that, we only had three live birds. 🙁 So...