Soapy weekend

Our friend Chris came over on Saturday and we had some soapy fun!  I have definitely not been keeping up with my soap-making and my inventory is seriously depleted.  I am freezing some goat’s milk in exact amounts for the recipe I use on a regular basis, so I am prepared in case I really [...]

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3 Day weekend and the deep freeze

The snow did some melting on Friday, conveniently creating a sea of ice wherever it melted.  Now we are in the deep freeze.  It was -8 this morning when I went out to do chores, and I put that off until a little after 7 so that I would have daylight.  Brrr.  This is when [...]

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Goat cheeses

If it’s summer, it must be cheese time!  The goat milk is flowing and I am milking and making fresh chevre two or three times a week.  Anything that we don’t consume or share with friends goes into the freezer so that we can enjoy it all winter.  I also am having some fun with [...]

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Soaping up!

I seem to be falling off the blog wagon this past week or two.  It’s been a very busy time.  Butcher dates, and all sorts of farm things like moving sheep fencing in 98% humidity… not my favorite thing to do on a fairly steep hill!  But it got done.  The really exciting thing that [...]

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She’s back!

Rhubarb the goat, that is.  She had gone to live on a friend’s farm in Jefferson, a few towns over, early in the spring before she freshened.  She had two beautiful kids. one a buck and the other a doe.  Our friends have a young family and really enjoyed having her, but made the decision [...]

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Seasonal updates

It’s been awhile since I last posted and I feel like a slacker.  Starting the week before Thanksgiving we have had a crazy schedule which is partly to blame, and holidays always kind of knock me out of sync with my usual daily patterns.  I dried off our doe Elf, as she was having some [...]

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Got Milk? Goat Milk :* )

For someone who has never (I mean never) been a milk drinker, I am incredibly happy about milk today. I have always been plagued with some lactose intolerance, but our goat milk doesn’t bother me at all. Not that I am drinking it, just making cheese with it! And after a hiatus of 2 1/2 [...]

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