This has been a slow spring for impatient gardeners. Two weeks ago (5/11/19) we tilled and it wasn’t until last week (5/18/19) it was dry enough to lay rows out. View Article
Lifestyle
Spring Goat Kids and Rabbit Kits
Easy Girl, our yearling first-freshener, kidded at 3:40AM on 4/6 Running a small Maine dairy goat farm is often exhausting. Kidding season has added to the spring mayhem this year. View Article
Early April 2019 Homestead Update
Wild Maine Weather and… My Grandfather Finished the Kitchen Cabinets! Just after having just hitched on the York rake to our old Farmall a few days back a real whomper was View Article
Snowy March Day in Bucksport
It seems the winter is still hanging on. Overnight several inches of heavy snow blanketed the rugged landscape of the mountain. Wind sent snowflakes dancing sideways into drifts. This was View Article
February 2019 Homestead Update
Mandy’s Homestead Update, 2/21/19 Rabbitry OUR RABBITRY CLOSED SUMMER 2019 There was a surge in interest for our rabbits as word got around I was downsizing. I sold two young View Article
August 2018 Livestock & Produce Availability
This month we sold out of all chicks, pullets, all but one 8-week-old and older rabbit kit and most garden produce. We have added dairy produce to our available produce, see View Article
Hatchery: December 2018 Update
Winter blew in early this year with two major ice storms before December. A lice outbreak this fall created a super molt. Poultry lice is common in flocks kept near View Article
January 2019 Homestead Update
Available this Month: Whole Processed Rabbits Raw Goat’s Milk Chicken & Duck Eggs Goat’s Milk Soap Chèvre Goat Cheese Whole Processed Goose Rabbit Pelts Hatching Eggs Happy new year View Article