So much to do

There is so much to do, I don’t know where to start.  A list helps a little, but at this time of year, a list just frustrates me.  We are unsettled because our chore list has changed so much.  We moved the cows out to pasture April 4th.  So now the grazing season begins, and [...]

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Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care

 Eggs for sale
  
If you know us, you probably identify us with chickens and eggs.  My husband goes by the name of Eggman quite often.  But, over the last several years the grain situation was changing.  We could see the handwriting on the wall.  We had a successful business selling pastured eggs and pastured meat chickens, [...]

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The “treatment”

I’ve been working on posts all day.  Literally.  I mean fencing, not blog stuff.  But blog posts I have on the back burner are:  an update on some of our laying hens who went on to fame in the big city, and what the “hay queen” thinks about hay.  Hay Queen is a derogatory name [...]

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notes from the pasture and garden

It’s amazing what the weather does in March.  Last Thursday brought cool rain, Friday gave us an inch of snow, and Saturday morning we woke up to a hard frost.  So much for the grass growing.  Now, Monday morning, snow again.  But I know better than to be impatient.  I also don’t want to complain about the [...]

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Staggerweed Mountain

Here is a sign of spring in our area, Delphinium Trollifolium locally known as Staggerweed, or poisonous larkspur.  This plant is really the only poisonous plant that grows near here that the cattle have no aversion to.  It is one of the first green things in the spring and is readily grazed by cattle.  Horses [...]

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