We have set our farm camp dates for the 2012 year. We know it’s short notice, but we have added a 4 day February School Vacation Week Camp. This will run from Tuesday, February 21 – Friday, February 24, 2012 and campers must be age 8 and up. We really enjoyed the April School Vacation [...]

April Vacation Camp was wonderful this year. We had a wonderful small group of girls, all returning campers. They did a wonderful job helping me to catalog all of the new baby goats. It was getting hard to keep track of who belonged to who! We handled them daily and they are all quite friendly [...]

The Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats are all done kidding. What an amazing kidding season. We had a set of twins, 2 sets of triplets, a set of quadruplets and a set of SEXTUPLETS! I have put up pictures of all the kids that are for sale. I will try to put up some information about [...]

Both cows have calved. We sadly lost Sherry’s heifer calf. The vet believes the cord broke during delivery and she did not get out quick enough. We convinced her to adopt a jersey bull calf though. She loves her new adopted son! Margo gave birth to another gorgeous heifer calf just 2 weeks later. She [...]

The first lambs arrived on March 3rd, a beautiful set of black twin ewe lambs (females). These were followed friday by another set of twins. This time a black ram lamb and a white ewe lamb. All four lambs are doing well. Many more to come!

All 21 sheep were successfully shorn today in preparation for lambing. We shear the sheep prior to lambing for several reasons. 1) When ewes lamb it stresses their bodies and they get a break or weak spot in each wool fiber at that spot. This makes it less desirable to hand spinners. 2) The lambs [...]

The new addition to the lambing barn is finally done! It is all bedded and read for sheep. Lambing will start in March. The first calf is due the end of February and the second calf is due the middle of March. The Goats will be kidding in April! We have decided to add some [...]

Enjoy these photographs from week 2 of camp. Lots of smiling faces and happy animals.

We had a wonderful two weeks of farm camp again this year. The first week was warm and the kids went home quite tired each day. The second week was a little cooler which was nice. All the kids went home with a better understanding of what sustainable agriculture means and lots of experience with [...]

I picked up my new Border Collie puppy 2 weeks ago. She is from a very promising cross and I have high hopes that she will be an outstanding worker. We named her Matilda and call her Tilly. I already love her temperment. She has her wild puppy moments, but she quiets down easily and [...]