Cheese making has many permutations. There are enough curds in a ten-gallon cheese that we can steal some for the chickens’ daily protein ration and never miss… Read more
Category: steers
dry-cure beef
It always happens. We get a perfect forecast for hanging beef, forties daytime, low thirties at night, so we kill and hang a couple of steers with… Read more “dry-cure beef”
calculating forage consumption
December, 2013: I am not altogether comfortable writing about uncertainty while it prevails. Problems are neater if you wait until you have resolved them to write… Read more “calculating forage consumption”
calculating winter forage
The sheep and short yearling calves are on the white barn paddock, which is small and grazed seldom, making it a natural sacrifice paddock. This means… Read more “calculating winter forage”
pied beauty
Thursday, August 29: The young calves and the sheep are together again in a paddock at the bottom of the south hill pasture. For two weeks… Read more “pied beauty”
grass
Monday, June 24: The old truck is painted a toothsome blue, and spun a trench in the gravel as it came up the hill from the… Read more “grass”
wet hay
Saturday, June 1: So much happens this time of year. The haying was last week, not going off without a hitch, but done now and no… Read more “wet hay”
