Our animals aren’t deterred by freezing temperatures. They’ll continue to graze as long as there is grass to eat. I only wish I’d been able to save more grass for the winter. Part of our management challenge is finding a balance between the number of animals we raise and the ability of our pastures to […]
For what seemed the longest time, our farm was covered in eight inches of the most awful, slushy, slippery kind of snow. Then suddenly, something like spring descended upon us. It began to rain and one morning we woke up to find all of that snow had melted away. Revealed again were pastures of very […]
With the recent warm spell, we herded the sheep up the hill to continue grazing the upper pasture. Emily, our Jersey heifer, stayed behind in the permanent paddock to make an appointment to have her hooves trimmed. She didn’t like it much, being all alone. At one point she stood in the paddock, looked up […]
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