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O, For the Love of Llama!
Things have been a bit on the stressful side here on the farm. Llama Girl is sick. Yep. And not the sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever type of sick either. She just plain can’t breathe....
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Morning Chores Pictorial Part 1
Ever have a curiosity about what a used-to-be-suburbanite (that’s someone who lived in the suburbs her whole life) does every morning on her farm? No? I’m crushed. That’s really very sad. Sorry. You’re...
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Morning Chores Pictorial II
It’s been a crazy week here at the farm. Monday Renaissance Man whisked me away to the Oregon Garden Resort for a night; we came home Tuesday late afternoon, and then headed off again with the boys to...
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Beauty Meets Mayonnaise
We’ve got fresh eggs here on the farm, and I love ‘em. There is nothing like them. Not cage free. Not vegetarian fed. Nope. There is no comparison to a pastured egg. What is a pastured egg? It’s an...
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Morning Chores Pictorial #3
Last week I left you with a bucket of goat berries. Hee. Hee. And now, I’m off to dispose them. Where does one dispose of goat berries? A manure pile, of course. I only know this because the previous...
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Llama’s Night Out
This weekend we got a lesson in “The Importance of Closing a Gate”. But first let me introduce our newest member of the family. This is ______. (Sorry I haven’t picked a name yet). I’ve been calling...
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Best, Better, Ok Produce part 1
For years I have been perplexed by the cries of many calling us to ‘eat local.’ Sure, there’s no comparison between a strawberry sold at the local fruit stand and the one at the grocery store. I mean,...
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Morning Chores Pictorial #4
Well, it’s only taken 3 weeks to show you my morning chores. I thought perhaps we might finish them up today. Shall we? It’s time to milk this girl, Sadie. Last week we had just completed milking...
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Milkless Rest
The slow time of year on the farm is quickly coming to an end. I forgot how much I adore the reprieve from all the chores. You see, right now there’s no meat chickens to feed or move down the pasture,...
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Giving Back
My family has been so fortunate over the years to have had a myriad of veteran homeschoolers help us forge our way along this nontraditional path. And now my kids are old enough that I feel like it’s...
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