Hard boiled eggs
So I think we’ve found the answer to having hard boiled eggs from our farm fresh eggs without sticking them in the back of the fridge for a week or two. Apparently steaming them instead of boiling and then immediately…
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…
Shopping with kids
Half marathon PR
This morning I ran my 3rd half marathon in Colchester, CT. The weather was nice in the low 40s, but there were winds of 25-30mph. On the first half of the course, the winds were not too bad. However, the…
Facing reality
Over the past week, Anna and I have been working hard on the farm and making lots of improvements. Not investing a lot of money, just tweaking things to make the operations more efficient. Along the way, we added 11…
Pony Club practice
Alex and Vicki are riding with 10 other kids practice mounted games for pony club!