After spending five months together in the womb, the twins are accustomed to togetherness. They stand together, move in tandem, and are rarely more than a foot or two apart when they’re out in the big, wide world. They’re a bit more independent in the comfortable safety of the barn.  Out in grazing pen in
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The mamas here at the farm have been busily adding to the livestock numbers.   Nona, a very shy ewe, presented us with twin lambs.  She’s a first-time mother, but managed the birth and cleanup duties quite well.  The trouble came later as her udder filled with milk. At the end of the first day, she had much more milk
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Lucie, our senior ewe. Photo by LauraP My son, who’s on mission in Brazil, has requested snow pictures. Everyone there wants to know what snow’s like, he says. So Jason, these are for you, and ‘everyone’ who wants to know. Not as cold, wet, slippery, fun, or annoying as the real stuff, but it’s the
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