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Pig Soccer

Hurricane Farm   -   Mar 01, 2009 - By Chris

We were cleaning out the young pigs last weekend when our kids came up with a new sport:  pig soccer. After moving out several loads of dirty shavings and mud, we dumped in the new wood shavings.  The kids decided that they would help to spread...

February 2009 update

Garden of Ethan   -   Mar 01, 2009 - By Ethan_1

My sister and niece helped me pick up our two Saanen dairy goats from the breeders, and we are looking forward to their babies in May and July.  Ten chicks hatched from our incubator a week ago, and I am adding goose, duck and a variety of chicken eggs...

Time Travel

Great Expectations   -   Mar 01, 2009 - By Candace

It has been a quiet weekend and I've been indulging myself by "playing" on the computer and stopped here to check things out.  I was so surprised to see that the last time I had posted anything was a few weeks ago.  Really?  What...

This has been a weekend of steam and woodsmoke. The sap started boiling at 3:30pm on Saturday (we took the kids to a movie first). I set the sap aside and knocked off for the night at about 10:30pm. Sunday morning I had it boiling again by about 11am and have...

We Are Glacial Erratics

F.A. Farm   -   Mar 01, 2009 - By Walter_1

Toni and I just finished watching an old NOVA program on the Lake Missoula floods. These were glacial floods that carved out the channeled scablands of central Washington, the Columbia Gorge and petered out in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. As some of you...

TODAY’S PROJECTS & EXTRA HELP Here is an idea of a typical day for us when we are not driving to Tacoma/Seattle.Today is kind of special because Jerry’s dad is coming to help/hang out.He is 86 years old and comes from Puyallup once or twice a week.We...

Questions on how CSA's Feed the Poor from CBS ...

Re Rustica   -   Feb 28, 2009 - By fullofbeans

We got a question from CBS (Washington, DC) on how CSA’s feed the poor. CBS Writes: My name is Valerie [last name omitted for privacy] with CBS Evening News in Washington DC and I’m working on a story about how despite the terrible economy people are...

Craving Calves

Cowmomma's Cupboard   -   Feb 28, 2009 - By Cowmomma

Though it was still below zero last night, today is it a screaming sunny day and all the cows and bulls are less interested in eating today, than they are in sun bathing.  There is a frenzy of grooming going on out in the pasture.  I helped by...

Questions on Water and Democracy from the BBC Worl...

Re Rustica   -   Feb 28, 2009 - By fullofbeans

We got a call today from the BBC World News Service and they asked very important questions about the water crisis of California. BBC: Are you suffering from the drought? No: having anticipated the rainfall, we planted only those crops which naturally...

Is it a rooster?

Re Rustica   -   Feb 28, 2009 - By fullofbeans

At early stages of chicken life, it is sometimes hard to tell whether the bird is a rooster or a hen. Behavioral differences and morphology aren't necessarily reliable, but in some breeds color differences help identify a rooster. JL writes My...