Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

Before we got our chickens, I looked at literally HUNDREDS of coop designs and photos online.  There's such a variety! I thought that ...

I've been wanting to get chickens for a long time now.  I've had my breed of choice picked out, literally for years.  But things jus...

I haven't been posting much here lately, because not much has be going on except the heat.   Hot, Hotter, HOTTEST!  Temperatures this we...

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. ...