Unseasonably warm
With temps in the 70s on the second day of Spring, the kids just had to have the slip-n-slide out.
Rob
Anna now offers riding lessons!
Anna now offers riding lessons for kids! We will be taking a limited number of students for lessons during the week and on Saturdays. For details, including pricing, please see our horse page.
Cinder has a new family
Today we had a woman who lives only a few miles away come and meet Cinder. She understands the possibly issues with his legs and has decided she would like to have him on her farm. She is very experienced…
Relaxing trail ride
This afternoon the temps were in the low 50s so I saddled up King, Alex got Precious, and Vicki prepped Devil. The 3 of us went out for a 45min trail ride. What made this ride different is we went…
Meat chickens
In addition to using eggs, we decided to try our hand at processing our chickens for meat. In 2011, we processed 42 chickens for our family in the late summer and early fall. At the time, we rented a plucker to…
Chick hatching on the farm – our homemade hatcher in use
Since we decided to get a little more serious about hatching chicks this year, we needed to increase our capacity. Chicks require a 21 day incubation period. We prefer to use an automatic turner in the incubator to eliminate the…
Officially Farming!
How do you know farming has a new role in life? 2 words – tax exempt. That’s right, today in the mail we received our tax exempt approval from the State of CT. And it was just in time, because…
Every weekend should be 4 days
2 day weekends are junk. There is hardly enough time to really get started on anything, let alone complete a project. If we always had Friday to get ready for the projects, and Monday to wrap them up, we would…
Amanda loves her goat milk
It’s a dreary Saturday morning. Since the morning chores are done and Anna is gone with Vicki for some shopping, I am inside with Alex and Amanda. I was working on researching some plans on the computer when Amanda came…