Category Archives: Photography
You’re Kidding
Our younger goat, Molly was due today, but went into labor last evening around 5 PM. She’s relatively new to mothering, last year was her first birthing year, so we’re still feeling out what to expect with her. She had … Continue reading
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News from the Coop
Late last week we stopped by our local Grange Coop and picked up a cardboard box containing 30 chicks (chicken chicks, that is!). Spring is absolutely the time to start chickens, and we’re trying to time it so that they’ll … Continue reading
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Poultry Happenings
Just in time to restore our faith that Spring is indeed coming, the turkeys started laying eggs. Tyler and I were observing our resident Tom, Tómas, when Tyler noticed one of the hens was standing quite awkwardly and concentrating intensely … Continue reading
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Getting Out
We ran Gabby and the lambs to the near pasture today, partially to give Gabby a break from being pushed up against a wall and forced to nurse her princess of a daughter (who to our knowledge does not nurse … Continue reading
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Baa baa black sheep
The lambs are already growing so quickly! There was a little scare with one of the boys, who was born with inverted eyelids (entropion) – the fear is that if they continued to develop incorrectly he could have caught an … Continue reading
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Fixer-uppers
In our winter lull, we’ve been tackling a lot of projects at White Oak’s home base, the common house. Our new pantry and reupholstered cushions are just the beginning – this week we decided to take on the office. There … Continue reading
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By the dozen
Did you ever see anything more beautiful in your life? A dozen fresh, glorious eggs after a winter of the brittle shells and lackluster yolks of the store-bought variety. On Monday Sarah Shea made eggs for lunch. As the eggs … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Chickens, Critters, Daily Happenings, Food, Photography
Tagged eggs, farm, free range, grass-fed, non-profit, pasture-raised
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Tumultuous Turkeys
There was some excitement this morning when a small flock of wild turkeys came to visit Tomás and the Girls. The four noisy gents hung around for about an hour, loitering outside the deer fence, ogling our three hens, and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Critters, Photography, Turkeys, Wildlife
Tagged breed, farm, free range, grass-fed, heritage, pasture-raised, turkey
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Solemn Goose
We got a few inches of snow here yesterday. The farm is situated at just the right elevation so that it can be snowing here, raining at the bottom of the driveway, and clear a mile down the road. It … Continue reading
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Past Natural Building Workshop Photos
I mentioned that we’ve put up some old photos on flickr from natural building workshops that were held here at the farm (in the past 2-3 years), but it seems like they deserve their own post. Over the next few … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Programs, Natural Building, Photography
Tagged cob, earthen building, eco, green, hand-built, lightstraw clay, natural building, straw bale
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