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 …
This is the first installment of the new MHF blog category “Never Thought We’d Do That”. You see, since we moved to the farm 5 years ago, there have been many things we’ve done that we never imagined we’d have (or want) to do. I thought it would be fun to start sharing those things with …