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Thursday May 20, 2010 - By Mona
It’s springtime so it’s time to work on the pastures again. Dan had done such a good job last summer, york raking up the ground to smooth it out for us to plant grass seed. They say the best seed for alpacas is orchard grass, but we planted a horse...
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Wednesday March 03, 2010 - By Mona
Last Thursday, New Hampshire, and most of New England and New York were hit with yet another seriously strong storm. The weather forecasters talked about it for days; you’d think the apocalypse was coming. They’ve been pretty wrong quite a bit...
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Friday September 04, 2009 - By Chris
Sarah, our Toggenburg milk goat, is hopefully an expectant mother.
That being the case, it was time to build her a place of her own. She was living with the sheep, able to come and go in and out of the pasture on the schedule of the cattle, but we...
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Thursday August 27, 2009 - By Mona
Our first week of raising alpacas has been basically, blessedly uneventful. They’re such quiet and peaceful animals. Not that we were expecting them to be constantly animated, but after a few hours we were saying ‘hey guys do something! ’ ...
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Saturday July 18, 2009 - By Mona
Don’t worry........ this is not an Alfred Hitchcock type entry!
A fun thing about living here is all the birds! Ever since we’ve moved here, we’ve been focused on creating our pasture. We did move several hundred perennials over here...
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Saturday July 11, 2009 - By Chris
We acquired a "new to us" trailer that will work out perfectly for hauling hogs and our cattle, as well as myriad other things (kids, pumpkins, hay, wood).
Our plan is to move two of the cattle to the new pasture this afternoon. If all...
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Friday July 03, 2009 - By Chris
Well, I managed to get tons of poison ivy all over my arms and hands from working in the new pasture. I had to brush hog some areas to run the fencing and it did not dry out enough with all the rain so I ended up covered with it. It's really itchy....
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Thursday July 02, 2009 - By Chris
You'd almost think that this photo was taken 60 years ago. Anyhow, Erica snapped this on Monday afternoon in the midst of my fence work on the new pasture.
Stunning looking machine, eh? I got to drive it down the road about 1/2...
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Monday June 29, 2009 - By Chris
There is so much to do that sometimes we don't take time to notice how large some of our animals are getting, especially as they transtition from little babies. Remember those hogs that we used to till up our gardens, orchard, and bramble patch? We...
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Tuesday June 23, 2009 - By Ann
I've been busy lately, as have most farmers. We are finally getting the rest of our 20 acres fenced. We are down to the last side and the last roll of wire. Today when I was pounding in the posts and rolling out the field fence, I saw a...
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Friday June 05, 2009 - By Teresa
When you have horses or other livestock and you don't want to feed them hay and grain all summer long, you're always putting up or taking down electric fence. This was the case with us last night.
The horses had polished off most of the...
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Friday January 30, 2009 - By Chris
So here are some photos of our farm just before we moved in. These were taken by my wife and our friend Jeff, who checked out the farm when it was for sale. These photos (actually, mention of the barn!) was all it took to convince me to buy the...
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