We’ve got a garden in (because oh boy, do we have plenty of dirt with the construction going on!), and we’ve been steadily working on it over the past couple of weeks. Instead of deluding ourselves into believing that that this was the year that we were going to get a giant garden in that would cover a large portion of our produce bill, we decided to keep it simple. We also decided to make it a homeschooling lesson for…
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…
As of this morning we are officially beekeepers! This was one of our goals from last year that never came to pass, so we set it as a goal for this year and ordered two packages of Italian honeybees in February. Two because everything that I’ve read indicates that having two hives gives you a good comparison. We chose Italians since friends had recommended them as the gentlest honeybees. Gentle is good. The packages arrived via postal service early this…
We were recently watching something on television when the word ‘precision’ hit me. It really resonated in the moment that we were watching, because for a long time now we’ve been starting to feel the growing pains of, well, growing. We’ve got things better figured out now, and we’re starting to realize that the way we set things up on our little homestead aren’t quite right. They’re not conducive to day-to-day tasks, to proper use of space, or to just…