A few years ago, I had the crazy idea to leave my career, start a homestead, and become a Goat Farmer. Well, now we had…
The dream of coming back to basics, down to our roots, and achieving self-sufficiency is a worthy one. You put lots of time, money and…
One evening as the sun slipped behind the Short Hills in Rockbridge County, Virginia, I had just shut the chicken coop when the evening quiet…
Live births are a big deal. Whether you are the mother at the end of her pregnancy, the newborn breathing air for the first time,…
It’s no secret that the world’s softest garment fiber comes from a docile and adorable animal called the Angora Rabbit. Quiet and calm by nature,…
To answer the age-old question: yes, chickens can fly. Those who consider chickens to be flightless birds have likely never owned any. Even with four-…
Donkeys can be seen across America and in fields around the world. They have helped mankind by easing workloads, protecting livestock and family, as a…
The first thing to do before learning to make goat milk butter is, of course, milk your adorable little goaties. I used to scoff at…
Returning to the land is a desire that has coursed through the hearts of certain people as long as there have been cities to escape…
It was 9:00 on a frigid Saturday night in mid-January. The sun had long since passed across the horizon and it was pitch dark outside.…
It’s autumn and Romeo smells like he just peed all over himself... which he has... for the umpteenth time. The usually-white hair of his black-and-white…
Snow, ice, sleet, and wind. Darkness at 4 p.m., rock-hard ground, frozen water-troughs, frostbitten ears on calves, milk frozen in buckets, salt feeders buried under…
