After a couple of painful stillbirths earlier in the season, what a relief to see our animals successfully bringing new life onto the farm. Here you see Grace, herself just a yearling, just moments after giving birth on the pasture behind our house. This little girl is as black as her grandfather. She was up […]
This week marked an important occasion for us: We started consuming the milk from our Jersey cow, Emily. Our first milk project: yogurt. The milk looked a little thin, like skim milk. And sure enough, the yogurt turned out runny as well. What could that be about? Well, as novice dairy farmers, we are learning […]
Before we even bought our farm in Upstate New York I gave quite a bit of thought to the kind of sheep we’d want to help us mow the property. I settled on a type originally from Australia–the Dorper–that sheds hair rather than growing wool that needs to be shorn. I figured in our dotage […]
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