Perhaps you recall the story from last year where one of our goats escaped while on the way home from being bred with a buck. It had been a final straw for Rachel, who spent an hour looking for Lily in the dark far from home. “I don’t care what it takes. Next year, we’re getting our own buck.” You see, the job of taxiing lovesick goats back and forth from a farm with a buck largely fell on her….
With all of our goats dry (not milking), we’ve had a little bit of extra time this year. We’re certainly missing the raw milk, but we are grateful for the opportunity to think about the coming months and year and how we may be able to accomplish more next year than this one. If not even for the chance to plan, this rest from milking was realistically even necessary – we went from having 3 boys who could eat, use…
What? It’s almost August?? Somehow it’s the second half of July and I feel like we’ve done absolutely nothing this summer. That isn’t true, but it certainly feels like it. Here’s what’s going on: The house project has stalled. It took National Grid eight weeks to move the gas line so that the next part of the project could keep going. In that time, our contractor’s crew started working on another job (and frankly, I don’t blame him), and we’re…
We haven’t made any cheese this year. A lot of people ask about whether or not we’ve been making cheese with our goat milk – I think it’s becomes many of them think that cheese is all that goat’s milk is good for. Part of it has been a lack of time, but the lion’s share of it has been because the boys have been drinking all of it! These past few months have been a very sudden and surprising…
I hadn’t intended to do a post this week, but I think it worth mentioning that our family is trendy. According to the Washington Post, goat milking is America’s newest pastime. How about that! To be sure, the Washington Post largely focused on the commercial aspect of goatherds. Plus, though it wasn’t specifically stated, the implication was that most of these commercial goat dairies are based around cheesemaking. Indeed, at one point it listed goat milk amongst other alternative milks…