I am happy to bring you this guest post from author Kate Downham from The Nourishing Hearth Fire. Kate has a new book all about Backyard Dairy Goats that will help you with every aspect of raising goats naturally. From feeding and care to recipes and information on using all of that goat milk goodness….
The other night, six babies sick and Daddy at work, I took to the garden with my baby and picked dinner. There were green beans and squash snapped and chopped for frying. There were fresh dug potatoes and onions and garlic that still had dirt on ’em. When everyone is sick, and even when they’re…
Since we weaned Buttercup, Mabel’s most recent calf, we have been bringing in the milk pail plenty full, twice a day. Over the last couple of months we have watched the cream line become increasingly more yellow as the grass has started to come up more in the pasture. And now we may be approaching…
Late last week we got a call that some wild hogs had been trapped and would we want them? Sure, was the response so as the sun began to sink lower in the sky, two of them were brought home and we prepared for butchering. By the time we finished the first one, the sun…
