Hand Shearing

Hand Shearing

In a constant attempt to simplify things on the farm and bring life ever closer to a sane pace, I have always wanted, nay needed, to change the way we shear our sheep. It isn’t that we have had incompetent shearers, actually we have been blessed with some of the best...
Did You Know? Sheep’s Milk

Did You Know? Sheep’s Milk

Spring time brings lambs, and these little guys are born scrawny!  A newborn lamb is little more than bone and skin, which makes it especially important that they find their mother and nurse right away. Because the newborn sheep are so thin, it’s perfect that...

Stock up on spring butter

Once the cows begin eating all the fresh spring grasses, we will make a huge batch of butter and we suggest you all stock up! While we can make butter year round, early spring is the only time there is this much beta carotene in the cream. Why does beta carotene...
Baby Calf News!

Baby Calf News!

Well after waiting for 3 months longer than expected, Sweet Pea finally had her baby, a RED baby boy. So it turns out that she wasn’t bred by a dairy bull but instead by our Devon. Oops! When Debbie gets her camera out of the shop she will send out baby...

Farm News: An update on the cows

We are purchasing some very expensive silage for the girls and they seem to be responding very well to the change in their diet. Silage bales are baled wet and wrapped in plastic to keep the moisture in and to allow for some fermentation of the grass. These bales...