I realize it's been a while since I've written here, but so much has happened.
My Tween has turned into a 16 year old with autism and epilepsy. He has some neurons that didn't form correctly in his brain (in utero) and some lesions and a small tumor.
We live out in the boonies, on a tiny 2 acres. Goats: 2 girls, 1 baby girl, 1 buck and 1 wether. Chickens: about 50 ranging from 3 days old to 2 years old, bantams and standards. Chicken varieties: silkies, cuckoo marans, black australorps, red stars, eggers (standard size and bantam), and all kinds of crosses that we hatched ourselves.
We grow as much of our food as possible but it'll be years before nut trees and some of our fruit trees bear. Loved the red raspberries and blueberries we ate this summer; we're adding even more plus yellow raspberries, purple raspberries, blackberries and currants in 2013.
Started a goat milk cheese share program in 2012 to help pay for my kid's expenses. Going well and have gotten egg and produce customers from it too.
We still have a LOT more to do but yes, we consider ourselves homesteaders.
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Check out our farm's website we just started: Rosemary Ridge
Ripe and Unripe Tomatoes and a Harvest
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Besides watching a seed burst out of fertile soil, or that seedling grow
into a producing plant, my next favorite part is when it is finally time to
pick r...
