• Grow

    Happy Spring!

    With a very busy weekend almost complete… Full of: Cultivating the garlic and up-potting tomatoes… Moving our compost pile and spending quality time with the ducks… Visiting a day-old calf and building a “living tent” for Ember (stay tuned)… Enjoying the sunshine and dirty, sweaty, down-in-the-dirt work… Sowing peas and…

  • Eat - Poultry

    The first duck egg!

    I kid you not… Less than 24 hours after bringing home our ducks, we were gifted with our very first duck egg! I guess our pair is settling in nicely and enjoying their new digs just fine 🙂 We were all so surprised and so excited about it that we…

  • Poultry

    Ducks!!!

    Because we don’t have enough to do already… Because Kim is the Queen of Craigslist.. Because the bugs here are insane… Because we’re always up for learning about something new… Because sometimes the turn around time from idea to research to implementation is quite quick here… Because we enjoy challenging…

  • Everything Else - Grow

    2016 Acequia Clean Up

    Next Saturday is technically Acequia Clean Up Day,  but with help at hand today (brother and daughter), we decided to clean out our portion of the acequia this weekend rather than waiting. There were leaves to be raked and moved to the garden and mole hill remnants to be shoveled out……

  • Goats

    Goat Pregnancy Watch! Day 86

    I’ve been driving myself a bit crazy trying to figure out if Mama is pregnant…reading a bunch of articles, constantly checking for signs of heat, watching her belly…all in the hope that she will, in fact, give us at least one (but maybe more!) kid in May! I am so…