by admin | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the years, we have had issues with predators killing our poultry and stealing eggs. Mostly, it’s been racoons, skunks, possums, weasels, and crows (check out a past blog on them here). We have solar-powered predator control lights all over the poultry pasture...
by admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last week, Greg pruned up all 27 of our orchard trees, rows of grapes and berries in the garden. He then sprayed the orchard trees with dormant spray. We are all ready for things to start blooming this spring. Pruned orchard Winter is also the time to plant trees...
by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you have not read our post about maggot farming from back in August, check it out. Over the years of using the top of our primary chicken coop run, we have turned well over 100 dead decaying animals into plump maggot treats for the chickens below. This decaying...
by admin | Jan 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
2020 went out with a BANG, quite literally. Yesterday, the mobile slaughter company came out and helped harvest our Scottish Highlander bull and a lamb. We had hoped that they would be processed closer to Thanksgiving given that they were scheduled since mid-summer,...
by admin | Dec 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Merry Christmas to everyone!! A few weeks ago, we harvested our turkeys for Thanksgiving. We also butchered our alpaca. It was kind of a sad day to do this, but this animal was a token animal that wasn’t really contributing to the farm. We took most of the meat and...
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