About a year ago I wrote about finally getting bees after taking a beekeeping class back in 2019. At the time, I had just installed four packages from Stonewall Apiary and was hoping I might eventually get enough honey for…
On Saturday May 16th, we loaded up the horse trailer with all 4 horses and headed North to VT. The AERC Bare Bones endurance ride was managed by Geneva Soule and the Vermont Equine Riding and Driving Association. Last year,…
At 20 years old, Quinn has graduated from Eastern CT State University with a double major in Computer Science and Data Science.in only 6 semesters. By living at home and competing for multiple scholarships, this one done incurring no debt…
Saturday goats, Sunday horses. Sunday morning (Mother’s Day) at 0745, we headed out with a single horse; Amanda and SA Jeeka’s Jessica competed in their first dressage show. Amanda had done a lead line test 10 or 11 years ago,…
Saturday was our first goat show of the season hosted by the Connecticut Dairy Goat Association. We left just before 6am with to make the 1:20 drive to Somers, CT with 13 of the herd loaded in the trailer. Attendance…
Kidding season has begun! For some reason, we decided to breed 10 goats this year with the first 5 due in a 9 day window. Sawfish AS Porsche kicked things off on Friday afternoon (1 day early) with triplets (1…
The high today was like 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Last night and through the morning we got 9″ of snow. The low this evening is a negative 2, with a real feel of negative 20 with wind gusts of 40 mph.…
All the does are dry and we are waiting for kidding season to start in March. In 2025, we freshened 7 does and by the late summer, had the milkers reduced to just 4 remaining. For 2026, we are freshening…
Once upon a time (in 2024) at an endurance ride camp far, far away (in Maine), a group of riders began to contemplate bringing back a CTR or endurance ride to the CT/RI area. Somehow, I (Rob) was conned into…
7/12/2013-11/19/2025Today we said a hard goodbye to Turbo. He joined the family as a little puppy and lived his whole life on our farm where he chased the horses and barked at the neighbors. Turbo served as a 4-H project…