I’m always amazed by the sheer volume of raw food it takes to make sauce of any kind. Our Yellow Transparent apples finally started to ripen. I didn’t get them thinned (like I ever do) so they are small to medium, and plentiful. Usually I like to make chunky applesauce, but I don’t like to peel [...]
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Apples and milk
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, food preservation, heirloom fruit, milk cow, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged food preservation, family cow, homeopathy, farm life on August 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I promise not to post until…
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, milk cow, wildlife, tagged family cow, cattle, farm life, agriculture, poultry on July 29, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I properly answer all my comments for the last few days. I’m canning apricot jam tonight and probably tomorrow. It’s actually raining. Yeah! Those cigarette butts the tourists toss out are making me nervous.
I have plenty to say about the garden etc, but that can wait. Here are a few pics until then.
Napping turkeys - [...]
Garden like you can’t go to the store…
Posted in early days, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, lost skills, milk cow, vegetable gardening, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged family cow, farm dogs, farm life, locavore, victory garden, zero mile foodshed on June 2, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I know I can still go to the store, but I can’t buy heirloom seeds that were handed down to me, or even high quality seeds, for that matter. I try to conduct my gardening like the store may not always be there, that way I won’t be in for such a shock. Plant a [...]
The year of the gradual garden
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, food preservation, frugal living, greenhouse, heirloom fruit, milk cow, vegetable gardening, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, family cow, farm dogs, farm life, greenhouse, grow your own food, heirloom fruit, locavore, vegetable gardening, zero mile foodshed on May 31, 2008 | 9 Comments »
After the big letdown with Jetta’s calving, I was kind of glad that it rained most of the week. I just didn’t feel like planting any garden. We let Jetta lick and clean her calf, and eat the placenta. The amniotic fluid on the calf, contains natural pain inhibitors, and eating the placenta helps prolong colostrum [...]
The hard part of farming
Posted in agriculture, family cow, farm life, milk cow, personal, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, family cow, farm life, personal, self-sufficiency on May 27, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Jetta’s calf was stillborn.
Sometimes, I think really hard about something and I think I may be jinxing it. Then I come to my senses and realize, even if I think about something, or worse yet, write about it, the outcome will be the same whether I had done either of those things.
I could make [...]
While waiting
Posted in agriculture, cattle, family cow, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, recipes, sustainability, winter stores, tagged family cow, farm life, recipes, frugal living, lost skills, self-sufficiency, herbal medicine on May 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Cajoling Jetta has become a weekly chore. I have tried new lead ropes, made by DH especially for her in her favorite color. New bridge washers on her cross ties, so she won’t hurt me herself fighting me as I try to milk her for the first time, etc. Nothing has worked. News today from [...]
Jetta is going into therapy
Posted in agriculture, cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, milk cow, sustainability, vegetable gardening, vegetables, wildlife, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, family cow, farm dogs, farm life, greenhouse, pastured poultry, vegetable gardening, wildlife, zero mile foodshed on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
She has to - she can’t deal with her owner anymore! I broke down and called the vet yesterday, and he gave me several reasons that I shouldn’t worry about the calf.
• The first baby can come at anytime.
• The bull, (whom we only know as Willy) may throw late calves.
• The owner can’t [...]
Sputnik - finally
Posted in cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, milk cow, tagged family cow, farm dogs, cattle, farm life on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Jetta is keeping her hocks together still, but her bag is starting to look like it can’t get any bigger. But it will - this is mostly congestion, but her udder looks nice.
Realizing I’m low on groceries, it’s raining, and library books are due today, we are going to town. Our co-op that we buy [...]
Insurance for when you assume…
Posted in cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, wildlife, tagged cattle, family cow, farm life, frugal living, homeopathy, sustainability on May 18, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Calf story - but nothing to do with Jetta. Sorry…
Remember that frozen colostrum I showed last week? I have frozen colostrum every year since getting my first milk cow, and have rarely needed it. After calving season, it becomes part of the pig treats that we find in the freezer. We have loaned colostrum to neighbors [...]
I’ve given up…, and chicken cheese!
Posted in cattle, easily amused, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, pastured poultry, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged chickens, easily amused, family cow, farm life, frugal living, pastured poultry, zero mile foodshed on May 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This part of waiting for the family cow to freshen, drives my family crazy! I have given up, I will not check or look out the window and exclaim when I see Jetta peeing or looking at the ground at that imaginary calf. Hopefully, if I relax, she will, and something will happen. Cows that [...]
It all starts with a plan and a seed…
Posted in cattle, compost, family cow, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, sustainability, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, composted animal manure, family cow, farm life, frugal living, milk cow training, sustainability, vegetable gardening on May 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jetta Update: Still waiting…
Frozen colostrum, just is case something goes wrong.
Everything that happens here starts with a seed, part of the “master plan.” A seed can grow into a calf that may be a milk cow or beef, or a tree that makes firewood, lumber or that just makes us feel good by looking at it. These last [...]
Jetta due tomorrow…
Posted in cattle, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, tagged cattle, family cow, farm life, milk cow training on April 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jetta chewing her cud.
Note horn treatment - do you think she’s trying to look younger?
Jetta is due tomorrow, according to the Merck gestation table, and on Friday according to the calendar the AI guy gave me. I think next week, she’s got that sleepy, late pregnancy look about her. But, she isn’t making much bag [...]
Weekend highlights and greenhouse love
Posted in compost, farm as desired, farm dogs, farm life, frugal living, greenhouse, milk cow, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged Australian Shepherds, composted animal manure, farm life, greenhouse, over-winter vegetables, vegetables, zero mile foodshed on April 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Despite my whining about the re-fencing, I was able to get some garden chores off of my list.
Hoping to accomplish by May 1st, weather permitting:
♣ Dig the last of the parsnips for the milk cow, and also cook some to check quality.
The cow thinks they are OK, the human thinks they look OK, despite 8″ of [...]
Crazy, normal week as usual
Posted in family cow, farm life, greenhouse, lost skills, milk cow, vegetables, tagged biodynamics, greenhouse, milk cow training, weather, weeds on April 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
“In order to teach, there is a lot more to learn.” Bud Williams, cattleman, low stress livestock handler extraordnaire.
Jetta update: Taking the heifer by the horns, literally, has put me in control. Somewhat. My daughter told me I looked nervous the other morning during chores. She was right. The routine is working and all my [...]
It’s not chicken feed
Posted in cattle, compost, family cow, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, milk cow, pastured poultry, redneck moments, zero mile foodshed, tagged family cow, farm life, pastured poultry on April 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My meat chicks are scheduled to arrive April 29th, so I had to order their food today. The feed mill that makes our chicken mash wanted 2 weeks notice. He is hanging on by a thread, with the current grain prices. Last year, our old feedmill went out of business, and sent us scrambling to [...]
Cow whisperer has to walk the talk
Posted in cattle, family cow, farm life, milk cow, zero mile foodshed, tagged family cow, farm life, milk cow training on April 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I have been dreading this moment for about 8 months. I have to train my heifer to milk. The last time I had to train one of my own, was 7 years ago. I was 43, now I’m 50. Somehow fear has crept in, maybe because my own mortality just jumped up and slapped me [...]
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