French Lop Kit … drinking…
Our wee French Lop kit learning the ropes of the big ‘ole water bottle trick…
Odd, but Admirable Ducks
Despite their seemingly goofy and chaotic nature, our ducks appear to have a lovely community mentality for sharing their morning feed. They approach the feeding trough, move down then out, and finally circle back around again. Fascinating.
Not the greatest of weeks
It’s been an emotionally rough week of the full “blood” moon for us here at The Menagerie Farm. Our lovely cat Scout went missing on Sunday evening (we fear the worst at this point as the coyotes have been circling close lately); and our Rex rabbit Honey Bunny died during the birthing of her kits…
Washing a Yurt Roof…
… when you don’t have access to running water and a garden hose (with typical water pressure) takes a bit of timing with mother nature. This weekend brought 80-degree weather and torrential thunderstorms — an ideal situation for washing our roof and outside walls. Yes, scrubbing by hand. The yurt roof is made of a…
Grape Arbor—Some Home Brewing In Mind
Over the long, cold, New York winter we took to learning how to make wine and brew hard cider ourselves. The wine was from a kit, the hard cider from store-bought unfiltered juices. Now that we have a reasonable introductory understanding of both processes, we’ve decided to begin growing our own grapes for the wine fermentation.…
Composting Hacienda
It’s been just a year now since we moved full-time into our simple red yurt. With that is a year of kitchen compost, humanure from our composting toilet and lovable loo, as well as hay and manure from our increasing animal inhabitants. Based on a design in The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins, we’ve erected a composting…
The Bucks — Home & Happy
Our two Nigerian Dwarf goats, Heavenly Hollow Dusty and DeBuck Homestead Bullet are settling-in to their new abode!
Getting Ready for the Goats (Bucks) — Part 2
With the buck shelter itself built there were a number of “amenities” to add, such as fencing (to keep them in and the coyotes out), feeding and storage concerns, and playtime. Again, we cut locust trees from the property and stripped the bark off to make fence posts a bit more economically — if not…
An Early Touch of Spring—Pansies
Despite the continued snow flurries and rain squalls, there have been windows of sun passing through western New York. We’ve added a touch of color to the duck house and chicken coop:
Getting Ready for the Goats (Bucks) — Part 1
The Living Quarters. In just a few weeks we will be bringing two lovely goat bucks onto the homestead: Heavenly Hollow Dusty and DeBuck Homestead Bullet. You can see a handful of pics of them and their friends on Lead Me Home Farm’s Facebook page. The first stage in preparing for their arrival was building an appropriate…
