Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

We moved the sheep to a new pasture today.  The temperatures are climbing close to 100 degrees already, so the sheep will be very grateful n...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I raised sheep---and sold their wool to hand-spinners---for four years before I tried washin...

 Even though I don't have any horses of my own anymore, I still get lots of horse talk from my sister Donna ( http://www.siberia-farm.co...

After more than three months of suspense, more than 300 name suggestions, and more than 40 lambs born, we finally have a Grand Prize winner ...

As I promised back in March, everyone who submitted a winning name to my Name That Lamb contest gets one entry (per name) into my gr...

It's taken me a while to catch up with everything that's been going on here, but here at last are photos of the last of this spring...

Sometimes a gal just needs a spa day, a little time to herself to relax and rejuvenate.  Here's how our Guinea hog Cerridwen does it. ...

It was a hot day today, so when I went out to water the pigs, I spent some time spraying water for them to wallow in, like I always do.  A...

Ah, the first of May, ancient festival of Beltane, when all the pretty girls wear flowers in their hair and dance around the Maypole, and th...

Poor little Xoco.  She has learned the hard way the perils of poking your nose (or in this case, your whole head) in where it doesn't be...