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.
A longtime sheep farmer once observed, you know you’ve got happy sheep when they’re laying around at 7 a.m., chewing their cud. Our sheep must be pretty happy. These are the four Dorper ewes we purchased earlier in the summer. They’ve spent the ensuing months grazing fresh pasture every day. They are plump and in […]
I spent a few days in D.C. Last week. The writing program at George Washington University had invited me relive my school food reporting under the heading, “Is Real Food Only for the Rich?” Indeed, the battle over this nation’s largest feeding program goes on–but without me tagging along. Hard to believe it had been […]
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