We’re really enjoying warmer weather
Will's been out twice more, cutting and hauling that great dead black ash firewood from the edge of our big beaver pond. The snow's so deep that he has to doze a path to...
Busy, busy, busy
Now that we're feeling better, I've been zooming around playing catch-up. I've got 132 tomato seeds started (I only have another 132 to go! After all, we're trialing more than 50 new varieties this...
Very pregnant Buffy is still waiting…and waiting
Holy cow! Would you look at that udder? I've had cows with smaller udders than our precious Buffy. We keep thinking that surely today she'll kid, and she still is waiting. As we had...
Our calves did so well last year that we’ve bought two more
We raised four steer calves last summer/fall, and they are now very BIG guys! Will just measured them with a weight tape (it's a tape measure that has cattle weights, along with inches marked...
Q and A: training a heifer to milk, powdery mildew, and ordering seeds
Training a heifer to milk
We have a Jersey heifer that calved about three weeks ago. I am having a terrible time milking her. She was so gentle that I free milk her, with only...