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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Pig’s Day Approaches
Tomorrow we will transform Pig from pig to pork. Last November, we learned many valuable lessons about how to humanely kill our beloved pigs. More than anything else they taught us through this process, they taught us that killing three … Continue reading
Farm Menu On Its Way to applewood Brooklyn!
The first stage in the realization of our ultimate farming dream is starting. Despite the excessive rain, followed by the no-rain-at-all, our crops are starting to take off and hope exists that the garden will flourish this summer after all. … Continue reading
Weighing a Pig
Our pigs are a mix of Landrace, Duroc, and Yorkshire breeds. We get them from a farmer friend in New Hampshire whom we’ve known for many years. Last year, we got three pigs which we raised, slaughtered, and butchered; this … Continue reading
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Learning to Milk
Milking a goat is not an activity that comes naturally to a human–at least not to this human. It took a couple of days to fall into a rhythm with Cindy and, after all, being milked was a totally new … Continue reading
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Tagged bag balm, fresh chevre, goat milk, goats, head catch, milking goats, milking stand, ricotta cheese, udder wash
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Fun with Goat Kids
Now that the goat babies are six days old, they want to explore and climb on everything. They have found surfaces to climb in and around their shed including, but not limited to, the milking platform, the milking stand on … Continue reading
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Tagged applewood farm, baby animals, cinder blocks, cute, farm, goat kids, goats, pallets, playground, scrap wood
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Goat Babies! (Warning: Insanely cute pics included)
We were all packed for our weekend in Brooklyn and were getting ready to take the kids into town for a quick bite to eat. It was Thursday night and we were going to be heading down to the city … Continue reading
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Tagged adorable, baby animals, birth, cheese, cute, goat kids, goats, kids, milk, newborns
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Spraddle Leg Chick
While I’m sitting around waiting for Cindy to kid (aaaaaaaaaany minute now…), I thought I might mention that our Black Copper Marans eggs have started to hatch. Of the dozen eggs we put in the incubator 22 days ago, 10 … Continue reading
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Tagged black copper marans, brooder, chicks, hatching, incubator, splayed leg, spraddle leg
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Getting Ready for Goat Babies (gross pic included)
When we got Cindy the Solo Doe back in early April, she was already pregnant. We were told to expect her to kid the first week in June. Goats can be like clockwork when it comes to kidding. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged applewood farm, birth, Cindy, farm, goats, kids, mucous plug, shed, teats, udders
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Bees! Bees! Bees!
Our first package of bees arrived tonight and we are incredibly excited! There was a mountain of information to learn, to say nothing of the equipment we needed to acquire and build, prior to being ready to introduce bees to … Continue reading
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Tagged beekeeping, Bees, flowers, hives, honey, nucleus colony, organic farming, package bees
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