Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

Restoring a historic farm. Raising Icelandic sheep, Guinea hogs & Orpington chickens. Trying not to go broke.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Newborn Guinea Hog Piglets!

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Yesterday, shortly before sunset, our pregnant Guinea hog sow Cerridwen started nesting, panting, and acting restless.  This morning she gav...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Quilt Project, Part 2: Fiber Preparation

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm making a handspun, handwoven quilt for a customer, doing all the steps myself, from sheep to fini...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Four Days to Piglets

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I posted a photo of our Guinea hog sow Cerridwen when she was three weeks to her due date .  Now, for comparison, here's what she looks ...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

100% Factory-Free: Handspun, Handwoven Quilt Project (Part 1)

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I'm starting a new, major project today! A friend of mine has placed an order for a custom-made, handspun, handwoven quilt.  I'm p...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Pretty Sheep

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I've been spending the past few days trying to get new photos of all of my lambs to update my sales list as well as some new shots of so...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Zero-Effort Gardening

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This is the story of The Mighty Pigaloupe. All winter long, the sheep ate hay in their paddock.  Inevitably, a lot of it was spilled on th...
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Countdown to Piglets

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There are only three weeks left until we are expecting our first piglets to be born.  Cerridwen is due sometime around August 27. What dat...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Pretty Chickens

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I just did a photo shoot with the chickens, trying to get some better pictures for my website.  I wanted more closeups of the pretty colors ...
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Nancy Chase
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
Shepherd, Farmer, Artist, Writer.
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