The video above shows how much the garden has grown in the past two weeks!
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Early garden baseline
On May - 22 - 2010
I thought I would share a quick video that gives you a base line sense for my garden before the growth really starts to take off. Should be interesting when compared to later videos.
Once certain plants are up further, I will be mulching to retain moisture.
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Llama shearing, oh my!
On May - 17 - 2010
What a hair raising adventure in animal husbandry this week!
We had contracted with a sheep/alpaca/llama shearer to come down from upper Vermont to shear our llama.
Its not humane to keep a halter on a llama for long so she generally is free of any fetters, running wild with the goats in their acre enclosure.
To be sheared, she needed to have a halter on. She is VERY skittish and only tolerates us barely touching her when she has her head in the feed bucket. She pulls away quickly even then.
Fetlocks, newborns, new gardens
On April - 16 - 2010
Kidding Drama
Things have been very busy around here due to it being a long drawn out kidding season. We had girls who got pregnant over several estrus cycles so the babies were kidded out over quite a long period.
We ended up with 10 kids I think. 6 of them are female which we will keep (and have all been disbudded now) and the 4 males will be sold.
This brings us to something like 22 goats total, lots! We have been letting the babies nurse but tomorrow we will separate them and start milking. At first the milk goes to the babies and then we will wean them and have the milk for ourselves.
