Farm News Sheltering in place on a goat dairy farm in March is a contradiction in terms. For us, March is kidding season, the busiest and most stressful time...

Farm News The ground is starting to thaw. There are only a few patches of snow remaining on the north sides of our barns, hidden from the sun’s warming rays....

Farm News The time has come for more milk. The demand for our chevre in Chicago has grown such that we could not produce enough to meet it this year. So, we’...

Farm News It’s been a quiet slide into our season of repose. No storms to whip through our now unprotected pastures; no goat breakouts into the naked tree or...

Farm News Thanksgiving is holiday of rituals and traditions; folks who have long ago left behind eating foods that wiggle or come from a can make exceptions ...

Farm News The approach of the holidays is the calm before the storm. The workload is streamlined to the bare essentials of goat milking and cheese making, or...

Farm News Seize the day, a nearly perfect day, for housekeeping. Yes, it had rained yesterday, yes, there are still little mounds of icy snow (mostly isolate...

Farm News Yes, we farmers obsess about the weather. We derive our livelihoods at the mercy of climatic forces. There is a long history of seasonal rituals th...

Farm News “They grow up so fast;” a well-worn refrain among parents and grandparents alike. In the goat dairy world, the progression from newborn to goat kid...

Farm News Nothing like a blizzard to punctuate the end of fall. The fall foliage, still vibrant with reds, yellows and oranges, were stripped off their branc...