Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Market Info: 5/20/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, Did you miss me last week. Yes, I forgot to do a newsletter. It was late on Friday night when it struck me that I had completely forgotten. My apologies. Some of you wondered what had happened. Nothing much. Just old timers disease. I'm back...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Market Info: 5/6/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, AND . . . even more stress. Does it ever end? We've lost over 1/2 of our sheep at this point. The Spring/Summer Wytheville Farmer's Market hours are 8am to noon from May 1st to the last weekend of October. The outdoor Independence Farmer's...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Market Info: 4/29/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, Last week I said that I could take a breather from the stress of newborns in the spring. Little did I know that there was more to come. More on that later. The Spring/Summer Wytheville Farmer's Market hours start this weekend. From May 1st to...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Market Info: 4/22/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, All babies are now born except one calf not due until June 10th. Finally, we can take a breather from the stress and worry over the vulnerable moms and babies. Well, until June anyway. Quail The 36 quail babies are nearly grown now. A few days...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups and Market Info: 4/8/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, We have lots of new babies on the homestead. There are 36 quail babies in the brooder. We have 4 lambs now -- one was abandoned by mom and is now on a bottle. She is doing great. Mom has a big boy that she loves. This is the first time we have...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Farmers Market Info: 3/25/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, Princess is doing great and is going to be joined by a cousin or two in the next week or so. It's spring and we can't wait for the new births to begin. Market UpdatesWe are offering meat products on Independence Online Farmer's Market. You can...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Market Info: 3-11-2021
Hello beautiful peeps, We named our newest calf, Princess. She is so beautiful and she prances on her toes. She is most definitely a Princess. She and mom are both doing well. Market UpdatesWe are offering meat products on Independence Online Farmer's Market. You can...
Fun Facts About Milk
Fun facts about milk. Anybody up for some trivia. “Fun facts about milk” is my topic for today. We have fresh milk again and it is always a treat. There isn’t much milk at this point because Rosie is quite a small cow and it’s her first calf. I’ll talk more about that...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Farmers Market Info: 2-25-2021
Hello beautiful peeps, Look at what we found this afternoon. As many of you know, Rosie is very young and we were quite worried about her having a calf. She came through with flying colors. This little gem, a girl, weighs about 40 lbs. She is a tiny thing -- and so...
Farm News, Herd Share Pickups, Farmer’s Market info: 2/11/2021
Hello beautiful peeps, First off I want to welcome all of my new subscribers. Thanks for tuning in. I'll give you a brief rundown on how this newsletter is structured. That way you can skip around to where your interests lie. I usually start with any market...