After milking this morning Matthew and Mike spent some time teaching a couple cows about how to use the free stalls in the barn. Now that the pasture growth has slowed way down, the cows are only grazing during the day but staying in the barn at night to eat. They have very clean and …
On Monday afternoon a group of us all worked together to clean up the pig fencing in the pasture left from the summer months. We rarely do group work like that on the farm so it was great to work together on a project. The day culminated with moving the A-frame pig house from the pasture …
Two days ago this lovely black boy was born on the farm. His Dam is Priscilla, one of our Brown Swiss cows, and his Sire is Campbell, a New Zealand Friesian. He was born way up on the hill where the cows graze during their dry period. It was a long walk down to the …
Jamie has various seasonal specials in her baking repertoire and the pumpkin seed & raisin cookies are one of the fall specials. She just brought them back on the menu this week, and they are as lovely as ever. Pumpkin is one of my favorite season-specific flavors, and these cookies have just the right amount …
We make two kinds of winter feed here – baleage which is wrapped, and also dry hay. The wrapped bales we can store outside since they are protected from the elements in the plastic wrapping. The dry bales are kept inside because they are susceptible to damage from rain and snow. Both dry hay and …