Farm News Absolute temperatures hovering around 100 degrees. Heat indices (temperature plus humidity) pushing 110! No reprieve in the...

Farm News Our herb garden is neglected these days. Every day this spring, I scurry past the garden on my way from the house to the...

Farm News June is “National Dairy Month;” for sure a shameless promotion from the US Dairy Industry to get folks to drink more milk and...

Farm News After a two-year hiatus from in person audits from our friends at “A Greener World,” we had our audit today. The standards for...

Farm News The udders don’t lie. They are taut like an overly inflated balloon, ready to burst if not emptied twice daily. All of those...

Farm News Just like that, our prolonged wet and cold wintery-spring ended and daytime temperatures soared from the ‘50’s into the ‘90’s...

Farm News Our livelihood depends on mothers. Our goat mothers produce beautiful babies every spring, resuming their seasonal milk...

Farm News Carpe diem! Yesterday opened the small window of opportunity to clean out our milking goat barns. The previous two days’...

Farm News Weather is always on my mind. I am not a “weather nerd;” I am a dairy goat farmer and farmstead cheese maker. My livelihood...

It has been a difficult spring with unprecedented high rainfall and lingering cold temperatures, but we’re still standing, and we’re...

Skirting around the puddles in the driveway and the shallow pond that covers the lawn between our house and the barn, I take my daily...

Underneath the thin but never-ending veneer of winter on the prairie, we've been taking some breaks, making some cow milk cheeses and...

Farm News 2021 has been another roller coaster ride of turbulence and calm; a year of struggles and joy; a year of extremes and...

Farm News Temple Grandin visited our farm this week. She’s a revolutionary and a visionary in the world of animal welfare, especially...

Farm News As many of our fellow small business owners are ringing their hands in frustrations over desperately-needed back-ordered...

Farm News Thanksgiving eve and bellies are full. Cheeses are ladled, flipped, washed and tucked in for the night. Goats are milked and...

Farm News As a dairy farmer, we celebrate holidays in between the daily routines of milking the goats, feeding the goats and making...

Farm News Seasons change and there is no way to stop them. We embrace seasonality. At the farm, we have it down to a science, even when...

Farm News The reprieve from excessive rains finally came this week and the night temperatures dipped into the high 20’s. The early...

Farm News The farm is soggy. After nearly a week of steady rain, some of it torrential, the ground is squishy under foot; every piece of...