Here’s Thursday’s breakfast: a bowl of fresh ricotta cheese with a side of bacon. We milk our Jersey cow Emily by hand twice each day, resulting in nearly a gallon of milk just from the rear two quarters of her udder. We leave the front quarters for her calf, who’s growing like a weed. What […]
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 […]
Our new boy calf, Del (short for Delmonico), celebrated his two-week anniversary yesterday and he seems to be doing just fine. When he isn’t nursing, he’s snoozing in a pile of hay or bounding around the paddock. He likes hanging with the sheep. They’re more his size. Maybe he thinks he IS a sheep. My […]
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