How and Why to Consider Cross Breeding Goats

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Oh, love me some precious farm babies!! In our attempt to achieve a few of our own farm babies this year, we’ve been trying to breed our dairy does without much luck.  For some reason, my does do not make it obvious (as they are supposed to!) that they are “in season” or ready to [...]

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Friday Wrap-Up: Leftovers, “Forever Frugal” and “Small Business Saturday”

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Happy Thanksgiving to ALL! Here’s hoping that your Thanksgiving was full of peace, rest and pumpkin pie!  :) After many years of feeding this crew, which was light this year actually as we usually have our oldest daughter and son-in-law with us, I’ve just about got it down to a science.  Once the bird is [...]

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How to Spend Your Money Wisely: Support Small Business

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Small businesses comprise a significant portion of the US economy!  ”Small Business Saturday” is this week! The 2nd annual “Small Business Saturday“® is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. On November 26, we’re asking millions of people to shop small at their favorite local stores [...]

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Supporting Community Festivals

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Photo credit  Does your community celebrate with festivals? You know, I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but here in the Ohio Valley, we celebrate food.  All year long, as crops come into season, we have festivals to showcase that crop and man, do we showcase!  Perhaps one of the most anticipated is the [...]

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Miniature Donkeys: What Do They Do?

We’ve had a lot of questions about our decision to purchase a herd of donkeys last week.  Rightfully so, not everyone becomes “donkey farmers”! Our decision to purchase Peanut Butter, Arabella, Heather, Midnight, Rosa, Nel, baby “no name”, Whistler and Leah didn’t happen overnight.  As a matter of fact, when we began looking at miniature [...]

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Women in Agriculture: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rules the World

Women are having a huge impact in farming today and are the key to the future of sustainable living! Photo credit This post took a funny turn as I wrote it.  My intent was a post about keeping our eyes on the goal, despite the aches, pains, bug bites and hoof print-shaped bruises I bear [...]

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How to Start a Small Farm Business

You love all things “farm-y”, why not make a small business of it? Me with “Rosey”, a few week old female It matters not where you live, whether it be an apartment, urban, rural or suburbs.  If you love to cook, bake, can, garden or raise animals, you can likely make money with a small [...]

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The Young Entrepeneur

I am so tickled to write this post!  My subject today is “young entrepreneurship“ These totally cool aprons were made by a friend of mine’s daughter who is all of 11 years old.  Her and her mom decided to use fabric that they had stacking up in the basement to make aprons.  Their plan was [...]

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