my account    view basket

 
 
Home Shop Farms CSA Forum Events Newsletter News Blogs Photos

The Blog Barn: an Assortment of LH Member Blogs

Entries Tagged with   [sheep]

Rochester Public Market

Blog: Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb   -   Sunday February 05, 2012   -   By Anne

Took our delicious lamb sausage to the Rochester Public Market yesterday and it was a huge success!   We sold out by 11am!  Thank you sooo much to everyone who stopped by our table yesterday and bought our delicious sausage!   The everyone at...

Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb is Back!

Blog: Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb   -   Thursday December 08, 2011   -   By Anne

Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb is Back for 2012! After a hiatus in our local and individual lamb sales for 2011, we've decided to try a new style of lamb sales, and offer USDA inspected ground lamb for sale in 1lb increments!   Ground lamb is...

Sheep for sale

Blog: Indian Brook Farm   -   Sunday November 13, 2011   -   By Lisa

Trying to reduce the size of my herd...I'm starting to get a little crowded...my Border Leicester ram will be going in with the ewes in a couple of weeks...so I need to get rid of a few.  I have three ram lambs for sale for $100 each ...

Tags:

Announcing the Golden Girls!

Blog: Golden Acres Ranch, LLC   -   Friday September 23, 2011   -   By Bobbie

Our sheep and goats are now available for hire! Recover your landscape in a most charming and environmentally friendly way. Their work is impressive. Take a look at what they can do with kudzu in just a couple weeks. We call them the Golden Girls . Find out...

The Black Sheep of our Family

Blog: Happy Hills Alpaca Farm   -   Thursday September 08, 2011   -   By wawanuky

Well, every family has a black sheep and now ours does too, but literally! I've always wanted a sheep, even back in college at the Univ. of Wisconsin.  When I was bored, stressed, angry or all three I would walk to the Ag. barn and watch the sheep. ...

Counting sheep not just for dreamers

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Sunday May 22, 2011   -   By Mary

Denver is on the verge of allowing you to raise a four legged friend not named fido.  Raising sheep can be very profitable, whether you are raising them for wool, meat, milk, or to sell lambs.   The best way to maximize profits is to...

Sheep Shearing

Blog: Eve's Orchard   -   Thursday May 12, 2011   -   By Matt & Kristin

When we reached a record breaking 90 degrees earlier this week, we decided it was time to start shearing the sheep!  They were laying around and panting.  We only have one more sheep to go yet.  Of course, now that we have them nearly naked, the...

Tags:

All Creatures Great and Small

Blog: The Shire   -   Friday May 06, 2011   -   By Laohaire

We raise several breeds of cattle for specific purposes, Sussex for draft, Irish Moiled for milk and beef, British White for beef, Guernsey for milk, and Red Angus for beef. We also have some truly rare breeds solely for conservation. Galloway, Devon, and...

Lambing

Blog: 123 Farm   -   Friday April 08, 2011   -   By Jan

After waiting for over 6 months due to the adverse weather last spring we now had our first lambs of Cotswold Origin. Cotswold is an old English Breed considered one of the few Gourmet Sheep Meats in the world. After 2 breeeding cycles, we finally had succes...

Fixing Fences

Blog: Show Farm   -   Monday April 04, 2011   -   By Donny

This morning I had to repair the Pivot and 1/4 mile of fence. Some fool decided to drag race down the side road and ended up in the riverbed. Serves them right!  Looks like this place is going to open its gates by July. All the new foundations...

http://bluehillfarms.wordpress.com/

Blog: Blue Hill Farms   -   Wednesday March 23, 2011   -   By Kim

http://bluehillfarms.wordpress.com/

Shearing Day

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Monday February 28, 2011   -   By Megan

We have our dates for shearing day! Please visit the website for more information and our farm blog is up so you will find more in depth musings and information there. http:// www.mmlivestockco.com  

Tags:

New Research Claims Roundup Ready Crops May Cause ...

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Monday February 28, 2011   -   By Megan

Here is an excerpt from Colleen Vanderlinden's article on Treehugger. Feb. 22, 2011 "Researchers claim Roundup Ready GE crops contain a previously unknown organism that has been shown to cause abortion in farm animals. The organism was detected only after...

More on Mouse

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Sunday February 27, 2011   -   By Megan

Mouse has been going with me in the truck like a big girl since she has her shots and is quite the character! She tries to do everything her mother does and then some. She already tries to work sheep and will be going to her new home in a couple of weeks....

Baby Season Again

Blog: Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Wednesday February 16, 2011   -   By Emily

It's a spring thaw here at the farm!  Although it's a great change of pace not having to break chunks of ice from all the water buckets, the packed snow has become so slippery that it's pretty much a matter of when, not if, I land on my rear while doing...

Tags:

Rain is coming

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Monday February 14, 2011   -   By Megan

With rain coming this week and new babies EVERYWHERE the next couple of days are going to get a bit hectic. All the puppies have to get moved into the barn, huts put out for the lambs in the pasture, jugs secured for any lambs that come during the rains. The...

Tags:

Thinking Spring

Blog: Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Friday February 04, 2011   -   By Emily

Despite the fact that it's still bone-chillingly cold here, there are signs of spring on the way.  Perhaps that groundhog was on to something!  The days are steadily getting longer, giving us a slightly longer window of time to get evening chores...

Tags:

Jason Lost Emma!

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Thursday February 03, 2011   -   By Megan

Last nite Jason came running up to tell me a lamb was missing, I asked if he had counted noses and was assured that he had. So off we went on a lamb hunt. Out to the pasture, through the barn, in the sheds. No lamb. Hmmmm. Then I notice Emma wasn't with the...

Hope & Heartbreak

Blog: Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Tuesday February 01, 2011   -   By Emily

First of all, I want to say thanks to everyone who took the time to read about my sick sheep and send warm thoughts, kind words, and suggestions on how to help her.  It was truly appreciated.  Sheepie survived.  She appears to have made a total...

Tags:

Home | Next »

Combined RSS feed for site. Right-click, copy link and paste into your newsfeed reader

Blogs


Popular blogs


Popular Tags




home | about us | contact LocalHarvest |

© 1999-2008 LocalHarvest, Inc.
Your use of this site constitutes your acceptance of our