Sometimes you have to make time
After having been sick for a week, I felt like I was way behind on farm work. But if you always do the work, you don’t have time for the kids. So this evening, Alex and Vicki collected the worms,…
Pasture maintenance in progress
Horses eat grass and leave weeds. Goats eat weeds and leave grass. A little rest from the horses is a perfect time to let the goats clean up the weeds! We recently purchased a large quantity of used Premier electronet…
More goats? Sounds good to me
To say this week has been busy is an understatement. I haven’t even had time to write about our newest goat herd additions. Last Sunday afternoon, I drove to New Hampshire to meet Cliff Parker of Longvu Lamanchas. I specifically…
Heritage Turkeys have arrived!
Since we are on the kick of raising our own food anyways, why not raise turkeys too? We placed an order back in February from another local farm that keeps Narragansett and Blue Slate hens with a Narragansett tom. As…
Sawyer Family Farm updates
Have you ever thought, “Rob and Anna always seem to be doing something new on the farm. How can I keep up with the changes?” Many people who are reading our posts are clicking in from the Facebook links. However,…
Devil’s cancer surgery
Warning: This post contains explicit details and graphic pictures of equine cancer surgery. Last summer, we got Vicki a Paint pony named Devil in Disguise (Devil). He has been absolutely fabulous with the kids and Anna uses him for teaching…
Farm girl
Today I am a stay at home Dad so Anna can chaperone a field trip with Vicki. You know you have farm kids when the 2 year old is quite happy helping with chores in a princess dress and then…
We have GAS
That’s right, we have Goat Addition Syndrome. You can read more about the affliction on Backyard Herds. In September 2011, we bought our first 2 goats. Right now we have 2 bucks, 6 does (3 in milk – 2 getting…
the teachings of schools
A little bit of enlightening truth from my first class (Critical Thinking) towards my Equine Sciences degree: In 1906, William Graham Sumner published a land-breaking study of the foundations of sociology and anthropology, Folkways, in which he documented the tendency…
Compassion
Last weekend, I wrote about the North Stonington 5k, but I left out the details of something that happened. During Vicki’s 1/4 mile race (which was 2 laps around a field), she ran by Madison. Madison is 5 and goes…