This post is going to be about meat and finances. If you are mostly here for the cute lambs, that’s totally cool, of course, but this post doesn’t have any of those. We will be back to our regularly-scheduled programming next post. *** We are excited to announce that we will be having lamb sausageContinue reading “Looking Under the Hood”
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This Week in Review
Content Warning- Real Farming. If you’ve read my Facebook Page recently, you’d know that we had a really fabulous and successful lamb open house. My goal for the open house was to share the joys of lambing with the public, and I would say “Objective Achieved.” I’m committed to running this farm open-source, so thatContinue reading “This Week in Review”
We Went to the Festival
And I sold lots of yarn, batts and pelts. Saturday started off with lots of visitors inspecting the goods, but few purchases. I was anxious that no one would be in a buying mood! But suddenly around 12:30, an unheard “buy-things-now” alarm went off and suddenly 4 pelts, a pile of yarn and half ofContinue reading “We Went to the Festival”
Preparing for the Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival
Somehow, getting ready for my second Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival seems like it will be more challenging than the first. First, I am not currently certain whether I will have yarn or not for the show. With three weeks to go, it would be helpful to know if yarn is happening or not. Continue reading “Preparing for the Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival”
End of the Summer
The ram lambs left on the 12th of the month, so the flock is down to the girls all dining in the Donkey Pasture, and the boys, banished to mow the lawn and subsist on shrubs in the periphery of the fields. The guys were quite large when they left, and I’m lookingContinue reading “End of the Summer”