From The Farm
A Small Blog from a Small Farm
How To Extend The Vase Life of Your Flowers
Caring for your blooms. When you purchase flowers from our roadside stand (or anywhere, really), there are a few steps...
Caring For Your Cut Flower Hyacinths
Thank you for purchasing hyacinths from our roadside flower stand! In this brief article, I'll be sharing why we sell...
My Doe Just Kidded, Now What?
This article is going to assume that you are planning to have your doe raise her kids. So your doe just kidded! Now...
My Guide To Flower Foraging Best Practices: Why, Where, and How
Foraging has become a significant part of my design process and natural foraged items have come to play a considerable...
Hand-Raising Baby Rabbits
There are times as a rabbit breeder that you will find yourself with an orphaned or abandoned litter. It is generally...
Caring For Your Wethers
There are three main aspects to caring for your new pets that you should consider. Hopefully you are reading this...
What’s In Our Kidding Kit?
Goat kidding kits vary a little depending on a farmer’s personality and the proximity of their vet to their farm. This...
There Are No Heritage Chickens Here, Sadly!
Our previous mixed flock was gathered from several sources – at least one of these groups of hens brought Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) into our flock. MG is a highly infectious incurable bacterial disease of birds. MG was something that we lived with while we had to…
Nigerian Dwarf Goats For The Home Dairy
When we began to consider goats for dairy, for the purpose of home milk and cheese production, it did not take too long for us to zero in on Nigerian Dwarf goats as being the breed that we wanted to try. Now, being a young family with small children, there were two things that stood out to us about the Nigerian Dwarf goat: their reputed sweet and creamy milk (due to high butterfat content) and the fact that they were small and would fit better size-wise with our young kids.
Nigerian Dwarf Goats: The Quintessential Pet
For both small properties and large acreages, Nigerian Dwarf goats can be a weed-munching match made in heaven. Nigerian Dwarf goats can be a great way to clear and control invasive blackberries and nibble on weeds all while providing aesthetic, entertainment, companionship and even milk to farm spaces.
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Marie van Hulsentop