I never thought I would own dairy animals. I just didn’t want the commitment. But over the years, I’ve befriended dairy goat farmers and I learned that it isn’t that bad. We have one dairy goat and we milk her once per day, in the mornings. When we want to go away, we arrange for …
It has been a tough 6 weeks here at Mountain Hollow Farm. If you’ve not read my last blog post, you can catch up here. As we were getting ready to take Grover for cremation last Monday, I noticed that one of our pregnant does, Magic, had something funky hanging out of her back end. …
Tyler digging out the gate. We usually have fun on the farm, but the last couple weeks have been a challenge. On February 21st, we had a 10” snowfall. Including the storms a couple days before AND after that storm, we had a total accumulation of 16”. Those of you who live in areas that …
Hello out there to our fellow winter weather warriors, we hope that everyone is keeping warm and safe! Curl up with a hot cup of something (tea perhaps?) and read about this exciting discovery here at the farm! Flora was not the only thing we observed while we were hiking the proposed nature trail recently, …
This morning I found the doorknob on the store broken. Since Brett was a work, Sarah and I decided to try to fix it ourselves. After all, we needed customers to be able to enter the store. Peeking through the hole in the door after we removed the doorknob. You may be thinking that …
Recently, we decided to start giving our new goats biblical names. This year we gave our goats names beginning with the letter “A”; next year we’ll do “B” and continue going on down the alphabet. Since Violet was the first of our goats to give birth this year, we named her silver baby boy Adam …
Today was a true farm day. First thing this morning I took our 2 LGDs (livestock guardian dogs) – pups, really – Hans & Franz, to be neutered at the Claiborne County Animal Shelter. I also took Ember, our outdoor cat, but they couldn’t spay here because it turns out that she is very pregnant. …
It’s been 2 months since the flood. A lot of people have asked me recently if things have returned to normal. I’m really not quite sure how to answer them. We have a regular routine so, in a sense, things are normal. Or maybe I should say, stable. One of the things I’m learning is …
On June 20, 2011, our area was hit hard by a flash flood. I don’t know the official readings, but one neighbor told us he collected 7” of rain in his gauge in 4 hours. Another neighbor told us 9” for the day. We live along Blairs Creek and had at least 4’ of water …
Things are moving and shaking here at Mountain Hollow Farm. We just installed a bus parking lot so we are better equipped to handle large groups. It required 108 tons of stone, that’s 216,000 pounds! Two weeks ago I called Goins Hollow Quarry to find out what kind of rock would be best to use …