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Blue Slate Turkeys; A New Adventure
The summer is half over, school is about to start back, and I am finally doing this post. Yeah, I’m slack :-) Life has been a whirlwind, it seems like the days go by so quickly and so much happens in...
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Homesteading; Fear… or Wise?
Jack Whinery, Homesteader, And His Family, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC) This post has been on my mind for a while. I fall into the classification of a homesteader, also labeled as “pepper”, “maniac”,...
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Fruit & Bugs; Some Ideas
Apples My family LOVES fruit. Yes, I capitalized that. Blueberries, grapes, peaches, apples, pineapple, kiwi… the list goes on and on. I think the only fruit my kids don’t like is tomatoes and that is...
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The Reluctant Chickenista
Captain Munch Chickens on our farm have always been the lowly, replaceable stock. That sounds bad in a way, but truly it isn’t meant that way, its just that in the scheme of things, where I struggle to...
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Waking Up To 2015!
A whole new year is ahead! Can you believe it?! We made it through 2014, despite dire predictions of disaster. Sure, chaos is present, but so is peace and goodness. Sometimes the world I see reminds me...
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Who Works Harder?
We are cleaning up from supper tonight, or at least I am, and my husband bemoaning the fact that I am going to put some hours in at my job answering emails and I still have to do the evening chores....
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Feeding the High Producing Dairy Goat Part 1: Genetics
I have goats. Lots of goats by my standard (24 or so), not so many compared to some herds. I have had them for many years now, nearly 10? I can’t really remember except that my youngest child was a...
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Feeding the High Producing Dairy Goat Part 2: The Gut
I had a hard time organizing my thoughts into an orderly fashion regarding feeding high production goats. There are so many factors, and they all inter-relate to make a whole. I know everyone is...
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Milking Caper
Sadie As I left the house to go milk I had no idea of the fun in store tonight. Walking down the hill to the barn I heard the goats calling, which if you have goats you know this is pretty normal at...
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Natural Or Frustrated…“Common Sense” Homesteading
I have sucked at blogging in 2015. Now its 2016 and I was cleaning the barn thinking about why. You know why I have been so bad at it? It is because I want to help people and I was writing a series on...
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