I haven’t really slept in three days. That’s how I know lambing is now in full swing. Little creatures have been hitting the ground since New Years Day and slowly but surely ramping up to now. As Ross so aptly put it, it’s like popping popcorn: first there’s one or two, then a pause, then [...]
New Year’s Day greeted us with our first lamb of 2012! (let the sleep deprivation BEGIN!)
Check it out! After weeks and weeks and weeks and months and months and months of sisyphean effort, on Friday we got our foundation permit. We can move dirt, put in conduit and plumbing, and pour a pad. Next week (sometime) we should be fully permitted for the structure. I can hardly let myself believe [...]
On this Thanksgiving, no one is saying “thank you” better than our friends at Hope Grows Farm. We are honored and grateful to count ourselves singers in “the gospel choir for the Southern Neo-Agrarian movement” alongside Arianne & Elliot and all the other amazing growers among us. Y’all give so much so many can be grateful [...]
Images: Yesterday, we killed 210. 210 was an absurd sheep. He was handsome, had good growth, a thick, wooly coat, and a serious attitude problem. We might have kept him for breeding, handsome as he was, but for the attitude. This sheep had a ridiculous proclivity for escaping. Eight times out of ten he’d be outside [...]
Ross and I just had a conversation while looking at our books that I thought I’d share: Rebecca: I see why people open franchises. Ross: Or just don’t go into business for themselves. Rebecca: Being an entrepreneur is hard. Ross: It is the hardest way. Rebecca: Why are we such over-achievers? Ross: Because we wouldn’t [...]
This week, there has been a lot of talk about the USDA’s nutrition guidelines. The great pyramid of my childhood has been revised. I mean, let’s be honest, this was crazy: I remember looking at this kind of pyramid as a kid in my public school cafeteria and would feel a pang of anxiety. My good-girl, [...]
Lambing. Lambing is so many things. It really can run the emotional gamut: from elation and joy watching the little fluffers leap and bound, to quiet peacefulness watching a ewe give birth, to high anxiety and fear when there is a complication, frustration when you just don’t know what to do or can’t get the thing needed to [...]
After a long lambing season (about 6 weeks), the last lamb was born early this morning. Ross is upstairs sleeping. Look for a more detailed post about lambing later this week. In the meantime, enjoy the cuteness:
The film GROW! has been released to rave reviews. Contact the filmmakers if you want a copy or to schedule a screening in your commuinty. Oh, and check out this article in today’s Civil Eats. “I got into farming because I like the idea of feeding people, and I like the idea of feeding people stuff that’s [...]
