Posted in family, homesteading, tagged garden, preserving, Home on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I am so loving my garden. the only pitfalls have been what to do about all the veggies when they arrive in bulk so I haven’t wasted all my energies on just one meal? I need to figure out how to preserve these great veggies. I am posting lovely photos of what we are seeing [...]
Posted in homesteading, tagged life on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I feel so preoccupied. I am busily working on my garden whenever the weather doesn’t melt me; Cleaning our porch from the animals and “no where else to put it syndrome” hit this winter; working on getting the goats pasture ready; preparing for T.’s dedication ceremony at church; messing with T.’s meds to manage his [...]
Posted in Unitarian Universalist, arts, community, critters, family, homesteading, tagged Cranberry Coffee House, Famache, Farming, goats, music on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday began with me forcing myself awake after partying till midnight, at 7:ooam. I had to be out the door by 8:15am for a Goat Pasture Walk/Famache Training. The boys were still asleep when I was picked up by my goat and alpaca friend, Sharon H. We were seated in a cold garage with many [...]
Posted in critters, homesteading, tagged boer, goats, homesteading, saanen on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
These beautiful girls are the newest addition to our farm. We found them in Newark Valley from a nice farming family who is changing from Boer/saanen to nubians. I am still in the process of settng up their new home. They still need a hay rack and grain feeder for the stall and run-in. I [...]
Posted in Unitarian Universalist, Waldorf, arts, community, family, homeschooling, homesteading, tagged life on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This may sound odd but I have not said those words in years, until yesterday. I have had pleasant times and hours and half hours, but a whole day is rare indeed. I took my time writing up my blogs in the morning and the boys played gently till I was through. Then I remembered [...]
Posted in critters, homesteading, tagged hatching, chickens, sorrows on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, we have successes but we also have a few sad failures. I won’t go into gorry details but it looks like we are going to lose at least one hatched chick and have had three in process of hatching mysteriously die.
But! We do have serveral that have hatched and may still hatch. The black [...]
Posted in Waldorf, critters, homesteading, tagged friends, Spinning on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I am addicted to Spinning Fiber into Yarn from my drop spindles! There! I have said it for the whole world to know. I started taking interest in fiber art several years ago when my family began moving from conventional ignorant bliss into eyes wide open educated skeptical aware natural holistic waldorf inspired. A few [...]
Posted in critters, homesteading, tagged chicke, hatching eggs on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Number two Silkie hatched the day before and sat overnight in the incubator to dry off. I was worried about how strong this one was going to be as he took a long time hatching and I ended up helping by removing some of his shell for him. I say him generically as I will [...]
Posted in critters, homesteading, tagged Chicken, hatching on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was the first day of many to come that we get to experience one of lifes most precious mysteries. Birth! Early in the day we received a big surprise by seeing one of our many eggs due to begin hatching today, begin a day early. We were extremely busy preparing a friends home for [...]
Posted in community, critters, family, homesteading, tagged Chicken, family, Goat, Rabbits, Self-sufficient, Sheep on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Boer Goats, Fin and Merino Sheep, and Chickens and Meat Rabbits. These are the things I am trying to acquire. Why you ask? Well, I am trying become more self-sustaining. I want to know where my food has been, what is has been fed, how it has been handled and cared for. I am trying [...]
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