Wow, the last few weeks feel like they took place at double speed and one result of that, is that this space has been conspicuously neglected. We went from putting the final touches on our new farm cookbook (read: immersed in proofreading and the annoying minutiae until we really didn’t feel like looking at it…
It finally *%$#*# rained! Whether you grow vegetables for a living like our farmer friends Kathy Bennett (also our boys’ live saving dyslexia tutor) and her husband Alex MacLennan down the road, milk cows, make hay, or raise alpacas, if you are connected to the land and live in this neck of the woods, you…
The exodus from the winter/spring dry lots has begun in earnest here at CCNF. After more than a month of having to keep animals off of the pastures at the Main Barn for reasons mostly related to keeping their fleeces clean, Sunday there was a mass stampede as all of the feed groups charged out…
Days like today on the farm quite literally make you happy to be alive! Perhaps it’s partly still the affect of post-shearing euphoria — as in “naya, naya, naya: we don’t have to do that again for 12 months” — but with the birds making their spring symphony, a wonderful breeze, 60 degrees, and nary…
I’m still learning how this whole blog thing works but if you click on the link at the bottom of this post you can see a cool Quicktime video of Jen and Kimberly herding a large group of our females up the hillside to the Arena for herd health day. Admittedly this was from June…
