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!
