Month: August 2012

It’s been a whirlwind week beginning with our Animal Welfare Approved inspection on Monday.  I forgot how exacting they are in their standards.  Most of our time was spent on the rabbits and hopefully, this time, we are in place to get

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Our goat milk tastes like peanut butter … just kidding!  Seeing a big increase in milk production since our goats have been eating the peanut tops.  Honestly, I can’t recall if I have mentioned on this journal that we’ve been feeding peanut

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We have cheap chicken thanks to industrialized farming.  Scientists have bred a chicken that grows FAST on less food and the more chickens you can raise at one time, the less expensive it ends up being.  But chicken is expensive to produce

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Finally, it’s starting to get tolerable to be working outside. Yes, it’s still hot and it’s been dry, but at least I can do some things outside without feeling like I’m going to melt from the heat and humidity.  Yesterday, I planted

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They weaned five calves into the pasture above our pond yesterday and they spent the night calling their mothers.  Noisy, but it could have been worst noise. It’s been a whirlwind couple of days.  Farmer’s Market days are always busy and this

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Often, I try to set schedules for myself, like for example, I have on my white board a schedule that I wanted to adhere to this week, but I didn’t make the schedule yesterday.  Instead, Gel and I loaded two buck kids

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This article makes several very valid points about purchasing truly healthy eggs from humanely raised hens such as: “Chicken farming is all about PROFITS. Don’t be fooled by clever marketing phrases on the cartons. A box of eggs with a picture of

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Yesterday, I posted this article to the Spellcast Farm Facebook page.  It’s the typical news these days: there’s a drought that’s killing all the corn, soy and other crops in the Midwest so food prices are going to go up.  Well, food

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