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 below. Produce: Heirloom tomatoes, wild coral mushrooms, blackberries, goat dairy products (see below) and other garden goodies in limited amounts. View Article
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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. Easy’s long labor ending in the early morning hours and a few hours before preparing for our once-weekly open farm View Article
Sunshine for a Day
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. Yesterday (5/27) the gate went up and in two days the fence will be up in time for this Saturday’s View Article
We are planning a vacation and hatching eggs road trip up the east coast following big life changes
5/20/2022 UPDATE: WE RETURNED ON MAY 14th WITH 261-EGGS AND THEY ARE IN THE INCUBATOR! We traveled a total of 2,968-miles in six days while camping in a pickup truck bed tent. We even picked up quail and our very first bantams. This spring, my husband and I will be 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 high populations of wild turkey––like ours is. That, in combination with the rapidly dropping temperatures and high winds up here 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 warm snow on the verge of optimal snow fort building—but not quite warm enough to hold together. The flakes piled View Article
Prepare for the Big Freeze
The end of this week the sky shall fall white flecks of doom. Oh yes, it’s coming. Soon we’ll all be waving our hunter orange hats in destain while screaming “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”. If you weren’t hatched with a thick beard and muffs like our 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 forecasted to hit. At first there was a 30% chance of a wintry mix. As of last night it’s supposed View Article