We raise our animals on grass. Still, this time of year we go through a lot of feed, mostly to sustain our Freedom Ranger broiler chickens. We’ve also added to our flock of laying hens–another investment in feed. It all adds up to almost weekly visits to a local farm family for 100 pound bags […]
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Our girl goats, Dolly and Tanner, are on their own grazing schedule. Lately they’ve been working on our overgrown orchard. We moved them yesterday to a new area along a hedgerow. They set to work immediately, happy to have some new browse and much too busy to pose for a photo.
If you have any thoughts at all about taking up farming, make sure you’re sock drawer is well stocked. I do a lot of walking around the property in the course of a day’s chores. Pretty soon, this is what my socks start to look like. I’m always looking for a brand of work socks […]
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