The last couple of weeks have been a bit trying for me. Between work and home, there’s just so much to do and so little time! I’m exhausted all the time. Happy, but truly exhausted. I feel behind on everything. The garden is still being put in, we need to…
The last few days have been a bit of a blur. It all started with the ending of another week and the beginnings of a whole new chapter in our lives and on our farm with the introduction of our very first milking goats! Since then, with a whole new…
BARTER A system of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. It is distinguishable from gift economies in that the reciprocal exchange is immediate and not delayed in time. Bartering is one of those…
Goat Cheese is one of those things that I never gave much thought to until we started our goat share last year. Then, with an abundance of milk on hand, there was only so much of it we could drink straight, so much of it went into the freezer to…
When we first began our short adventures in Goat Sharing last year, I had no idea how much I would grow to love goat cheese. I knew I liked it, but I wouldn’t have guessed it would become one of my favorite things and that I would crave it regularly.…
After several months of getting to visit with and milk four lovely goats as part of our goat share, we received an email last week from the goats owner stating that the goats were going to a new home. Here is the email, in part… After much consideration, I have…
With the exception of a few times after Baby got hurt, milking and feeding the goats over the past several months has been a breeze. Baby cooperates, her sister, mom and kid cooperate and everything goes rather smoothly. When we got to the goats yesterday, however, the were riled up!…
I mentioned in December that we’ve been freezing our leftover goats milk every few days in preparation for eventually making our first few batches of Goat’s Milk Soap. Well, the day finally arrived and we jumped into making soap for the very first time!…