Beautiful, warm fall day
I just took a cruise around the gardens and really enjoyed the fragrance of fall leaves. The maples are turning color and other trees and plants are starting to show some fall colors. It's...
Our little goat cottage is nearing completion
We've been busy with the garden, among other projects, and the weather has been hot, hot. But finally our little goat cottage is nearly done. I painted two coats of barn red on it,...
I have some sad news
Our son, Javid, passed away yesterday morning, peacefully, in his sleep. Although it was very hard for me, I know he'd been fighting a good fight for a few years now and was very...
Q and A: Gardening and farm questions
Breeding chickens
I have been wanting to start raising my own Cornish-rock Cross chickens, but was not sure where to begin, which breed for the hen and rooster? Also you mentioned breeding back; can you...
Will got the hay in just before the rain
Will, Christian, and Eric worked in 90 degree heat to get a small field of very tall Reed canary grass baled into square bales. Rain was in the forecast (which has now hit in...