Meet Number Nine!
Nine years ago this week, I brought my first Jersey cow home to the farm. Not long after, she gave...
Read More
Category: Today’s Moo
This is spring?
Mother Nature has a sense of humor, doesn’t she? All winter, she delivered lovely stretches...
Read More
Serious tractor time
Years ago, whoever farmed this land built a wall of sorts to protect the bank of this small, spring-fed creek and an old, stone lined farm well that once stood nearby. In time, the stones tumbled and many washed away or were...
Read MoreTough Old Hedge Posts
Old fences of hedge posts and rusted barbed wire mark some of the pasture boundaries here at the farm. We have newer fences, too, some with metal posts and wire that’s maybe a decade old. Others have been repaired and...
Read MoreShe’s not a lamb now
A year ago today, Tiny Bottle Lamb weighed about 7 pounds. She still slept indoors in the playpen and followed me around outdoors like a puppy. She still sucked fingers when she was hungry. She hadn’t yet learned how to cross a creek, even a very little one.
