by Marissa | Dec 16, 2014 | 2014, Farm, Health, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, Uncategorised
With the birth of Sugar’s calf Blue, we are back into the full swing of milking. Although, at this point the calf is always with his mama and we are just milking what milk he doesn’t take. Within a week or so we will start keeping them apart for a couple...
by Marissa | Dec 16, 2014 | 2014, Farm, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, Uncategorised
We’ve a new arrival to our tiny farm! Our highland jersey cross, Sugar, was due to calf at the end of this week. The 19th on my calendar to be exact. However, we were surprised with an early arrival. It was a wet but warmish night and Dan went out late in the...
by Marissa | May 16, 2013 | 2013, Daily Rhythm, Farm, Health, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, Uncategorised
We’ve somewhat settled into having a milk cow and I thought that I’d share a post (or two or three) on the addition of a milk cow to our farm and I figured that I better do it before I got really comfortable so that I’d remember all those newbie,...
by Marissa | Apr 22, 2013 | 2013, Farm, GrowingFamily, Image-Update, PursuingBeauty, Uncategorised
It’s been a bit hard week, not terrible just hard. We’ve had the stomach flu and between three sick girls and mama (all at the same time), the laundry overflowed and Dan was kept hopping. I’m a bit of a wimp at times so I felt like I was never going...
