When one mighty Maddie does the work of ten wet-hay-waste bin tampers.
Making More Milk = Making More [Goat] Babies
Biscuit on the way to an off-site Saanen buck. She tried to call shotgun.
Help Us Help You
"Volunteering is linked to health benefits like lower blood pressure and decreased mortality rates."
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Character Building
This courtesy of The Female Farmer Project: From our friend Blair of Madstone Farm... "The tender absurdity of farmy mama [and grand-mama] multitasking. Can't say it is easy but I imagine it builds character on all our parts --bovine included."
To motherhood -- in its many farmy forms.
Our early spring is off to an auspicious start.
Cocoa Puff delivering, and us gals caring for, goat babies on International Women's Day.
Hoofprints to Heartbeats
Farming takes a lot of love.
A Few of Our Fellow Non-Fellow Farmers
"Many of my fellow famers are women. You look around in the field, barn, or greenhouse and you're bound to find women breaking down and building up our understanding of gender roles."
Stella Natura, 2017, "Balance Through Agriculture in the Hudson Valley," Jesse Ezekiel Tolz.
Ah, the quiet time...
We're entering the quietest time of year on the farm, winter! The goats will be dried off shortly, everyone who should be is pregnant, and it's time to clean out the nursery in anticipation of super helpful new farm assistants, like these little guys.
If you're interested in volunteering with the baby goats please send us an email. There are morning, noon, and evening bottle feedings, pen and nursery cleaning, and, of course, intensive cuddle training.
Farm Glossary: Dried off, to dry off
To stop milking the does and let their bodies store resources for the remainder of their pregnancies.