By Pops This past week was a difficult one for Farscape Farm. While Thanksgiving was filled with fun and love earlier in the week, we were confronted with what every pet owner or farm owner dreads. And that is the time when one of your beloved animals has reached the end of their time, is suffering and needs to be put down. We find these words like put to sleep
By Pops There are often stinky days on Farscape Farm and almost invariably, they involve manure. Whether shoveling it, moving it, spreading it or just shifting bins, it’s a good bet that if you have a stinky day in involves manure. Our “hayman”, shout out to Cory Shellhammer, was kind enough to bring his chisel plow to turn over our ¼ acre ground garden and once that’s done, its time
For about 6 months a year the Alpacas get a shot which lessens the risk of developing a deadly disease from a meningeal worm. No big deal, right? Yeah, until you’ve been spat upon or kicked by an unhappy alpaca. I remember as a kid we used say, “he hocked a loogie.” Never really knew what that meant until I was spat upon by a camelid. The have multiple stomachs
Much of the work on a farm requires serious thought. Whether it is the timing of your planting gardens, deciding which of your herd is getting bred (although we’ve found that our planning sometimes doesn’t matter when there is a breakout), watering schedules, decisions on when to harvest, or preparing to do an event such as a reunion, you expend a lot of energy thinking about your farm. But then
Very good Dane of Farscape Farm As told to Pops Today was a good day. It started out good because I got to go out early and do as a dog do, before we get to a great part of the day. And that’s breakfast. Which is just as good as dinner, which are both better than snacks because you get more. But sometimes, we get snacks that take a
The end of the season is always somewhat bittersweet. You get an explosion of produce and at the same time, you are cleaning up beds and getting ready to plan for the next year. You are preserving your produce for the winter which is a lot of work, but fun and tasty. You are stacking wood for heating the farmhouse and at the same time already thinking about your beds
