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April Showers Bring...

4/16/2013

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What do April Showers bring???? Hopefully May flowers, but at Wild Carrot Farm they've already brought:

****"Brand New Baby Goats"! I've been delaying writing this post, hoping that Melba will give birth to the calf (calves?) that are bulging out of her sides so far that she can barely go from standing to lying down without laborious breath. We have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of her calves for many reasons - baby cows are so cute(!)..... and also it will start the season of milk! (Goat milk excepted... already available weekly!) Whilst waiting for Melba to calve, Calamity Jane had two beautiful kids- a doeling and a buckling. They are so healthy and happily skipping around that no picture can do them justice.

**** PLOWING the fields for the first spring planting! As of this writing, we have seeded peas, carrots, beets, and transplanted kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and swiss chard.

****BABY CHIX get their first excursion onto fresh grass! When the chicks are born, they need to be very dry and very warm, and are kept in a brooder with appropriate temperature control. Today, we moved the brooder out of the greenhouse and put up some portable fencing. Onto greener pastures!

****SHEPHERD training! OBIE (Obediah) our sweet border collie has found his calling, and his instincts are quite keen. He loves bringing the ewes and lambs out to pasture in the morning, and back to the barn each evening. Now we need to start training the ourselves to communicate to Obie which direction to take them!

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Bienvenue, Spring!

3/27/2013

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Give em' one warm day, and the snowdrops in your back yard will take a mile! 
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Speaking of, we've been welcoming babies of all kinds here on the farm. While we enjoy the antics of the kids and lambs,  we're also anticipating the arrival of the Melba's calf ANY DAY. It's a lot of staring and belly rubbing, but it's terribly exciting to think that we'll be in cow milk in a few weeks, and have an adorable calf or two to love on. 

Meanwhile, raw goat milk is available by reservation currently, at $8/ half gallon and $4/ quart. 

Happy spring, y'all!



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And our new Kids...

4/14/2012

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Poppy and Hyssop
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