I found these pictures that Karen had taken in June 2020, and we never shared them. We have a terraced hillside above our pond which is where a portion of our Apple and Pear Orchard is located. It is very popular with the deer in the summer and its common for us to watch the […]
Pasture Fencing Project-Completed
So the following is a post I wrote probably 4 years ago and simply never posted it. Its fun to look back to see how a project like fencing in of our upper pasture has completely transformed how we use our land and improved our little farm. What is also amazing to see how much […]
Chicken Fortress expansion
You may recall a couple years ago we made a significant upgrade to our chicken coop by adding on a fully enclosed chicken run. This was necessary in order to keep our chickens safe from the resident Redtail Hawks. You can read about that project here: Chicken Fortress It’s been wonderful improvement because the birds […]
First baby goats of 2022
Yep, we have baby goats. Rose had 3 kids last Friday, as usual with no problems. She is a remarkable goat, such an attentive mother and all around a joy to watch. Funny, as when we first got her she was routinely referred to as the little PITA, since she was always escaping her pen […]
Chicken Fortress
We have 24 chickens; 22 hens and a couple of roosters. We used to have more, but unfortunately the Red-tail Hawks that reside on our property have learned our Free-Range Chickens are an easy meal; we have lost 4 hens over the last 3 months. We debated many different options, from bird netting, electric fence […]
Staying Safe, mostly at home
So what crazy times we are living in right now, HUH? I have been on work furlough and the boys have been doing distance-based learning for roughly 5 weeks now. The uncertainty is what makes things so unsettling right now, we have decided to make the best of it. Here are a few pics from […]
First Baby Goats of 2020
Due to a series of delays, distractions, poor timing, etc, it didnt seem like we were ever going to get any babies this year. But, finally, we were able to get a couple of the goats bred, and our wonderful doe Blue had some babies the other day. Better yet, they were both girls! This […]
Fresh veggies, finally!
As many of you that live here in the Pacific Northwest already know, it has been a cooler summer than in the last few years and everything has taken longer to mature. In addition, this year the deer completely demolished more than half of our tomatoes and peppers shortly after we transplanted them into the […]
Honey Harvest 2019
Yesterday we removed the honey supers from the bee hives. Our good friend Nancy helped us remove the honey supers and inspect the hives. So great to have such great help. Thanks Nancy! Once we removed them from the hives we stored the full frames in storage totes.This keeps the bees away from the honey […]
Beautiful day, goats browsing
Our goats have plenty of goodies to browse on, and they get lots of exercise too. Halle Berry always comes to day “hi”. We are all sick, so taking a day to rest, sit back and enjoy the sights and sounds of the farm is the plan. Really something we should do more often anyways. […]
Spring has sprung
Hangin’ out in the pasture
Not much to say other than I got some pictures of the goats the other day in between some rain showers. This time of year those sunbreaks are few and far between, and luckily the goats were all outside during one of the them. In the background you can see the water in the lower […]