Monthly Archives: July 2014

Goat Milk?

Janie The Precocious Goat is still making milk. Back at the beginning of May, I wrote a piece about Janie making milk without having been bred (you can read that post here: https://applewoodfarm.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/shes-not-kidding/).  At the time, we really didn’t know whether … Continue reading

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These Chicks Have Two Mommies (or, It Takes a Village)

One by one, our hens have gone broody over the past two months. Fifteen new chicks have joined our flock in that time, hatched from four broody mamas. And now there are even more. These new chicks came from a clutch of … Continue reading

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How to Hard Cook an Egg

We harvested our garlic today. Garlic is one of the few crops that seems to require almost no farming experience, to say nothing of its self-sufficiency. You don’t need to weed garlic; heck, you don’t even need to water garlic. … Continue reading

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