I have been thinking a lot about chickens lately. Which I guess is pretty normal for me, because I love those little guys! There is probably an endless number of entertaining things you can do with chickens, but if you have a good-sized flock of them, maybe a dozen or more, one fun thing you …
We now make and sell 7 different kinds of cheese on a consistent basis. Each of these cheeses is special and unique. They are all for sale at our farm store (and most of our weekly farmers markets), so if you see a kind that isn’t regularly available where you shop, stop by to try …
I always like to have some broth on hand – for making soup, cooking beans or other legumes/grains in, or just drinking on a cold day or if I have an upset stomach. This week I made some broth from our pork shanks. We have plenty of pork shanks available in the Cricket Creek farm …
On saturday evening Topher welded a new hinge for a gate in the barn. This gate separates the two sides of our barn – the bedded pack and the free stalls. I didn’t know that he was going to be working on this project at that time, and I walked by and saw the sparks flying …
All summer long we have had our youngest group of hens living on the front lawn. You have likely seen them wander onto the parking lot, or to the calf barn, or wherever else they feel like going. Our old flock of hens that was living in the coop by the tin barn is now …