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Our barn cat who sleeps inside. #SmallFarmLife

You can read excerpts from Memoir - tending sheep, cattle, pigs; frozen pipes, near-drownings in an icy pond, muskrats and snakes, a murderous tractor, creepy stories from neighbors.
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Yrsa kidded at 4 am today. On April Fools and the pink full moon. To top it off she birthed a spectacular "self-black" doeling and a typical tan and and black buckling. Even more information in the replies now!
#sanclementeislandgoats #livestockconservancy #rarebreedgoats #smallfarmlife #goatsky

A brownish-gray bunny with its ears perked nomming on some grass with a green bowl of feed next to him. His brownish-gray mother is behind him, and a water bottle shadow is projected on the wooden wall behind them both.

Rabbit Rabbit, Happy April!

#SmallFarmLife

Woohoo, Yrsa kidded around 4am I had to bring the kids in the house to dry them off. Yrsa is historically intensely protective of her kids. And I have a finger bruise to prove it. I had to shield myself from a protection attack.
#smallfarmlife #sanclementeislandgoats #goatsky

Women Who Stare At Goat Vulvas, the movie. Starring me and The Liminal Farmstead San Clemente Island goat gals.

Come on, let those kids out you silly goats!

#smallfarmlife #goatlife #sanclementeislandgoats #livestockconservancy

6 9" round chocolate cakes cooling on 3 racks on a chest freezer in the corner of a room

Found a few jars of milk in the back of the fridge that were past their prime, so instead of given them to the chickens I decided to make a few cakes for the humans. One for tonight, the rest will go in the freezer for easy dessert on busy weeknights 🍽️ #SmallFarmLife

Rabbit meat, still raw, in a Dutch oven over some sauteed onions and garlic

Rabbit meat, cooked, the meat falling off the bone, braised in a rabbit stock and tomato sauce, in a Dutch Oven

A grayish tan plate on a bamboo table, the plate has a cooked rabbit foreleg, rice, and collards

Meals from the backyard are so good. Here's last night's dinner: fresh rabbit, sauce made from last year's canned tomatoes and this winter's rabbit stock, collards from the garden cooked in bacon fat from our hogs, and rice (store bought) with herbs from last year's garden. 🌱🍽️ #SmallFarmLife

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All the forward movement is being made to bring Dick, Benson, and 3 other San Clemente Island goats to The Liminal Farmstead. Dick and Benson are incredibly rare self black, and Benson sports one of a kind white splotches on his black coat.
#goatsky #smallfarmlife #raregoats #livestockconservsncy

Only just so long you can own. farm before you've got to put up a tire swing. #smallfarmlife #homesteading #tireswing #barns

A ritual for a healthy and successful goat kidding season. With longer or deeper intentions for the same regarding success in other San Clemente Island goat reproductive projects.
#farmwitch #witchsky #smallfarmlife #goatwitch #ritual #intentions #sanclementeislandgoats

All hail!
That’s a biggun.

We have multiple small ones, some of which have been helping pretty up pathways - which seems silly now, given the probable early Spring.

And, no, the piles are not helping with pitchfork and shovel. Rather, simply by being themselves.

#SmallFarmLife
#ExistentialFarming

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Sounds like the value of my rabbits’ poop is rising.

#SmallFarmLife
#RegenerativeAgriculture

Hatch-a-hatch hatch hatchering #SmallFarmLife #Homesteading #Babies #Chickens

I did shovel about a mile worth of paths today.
#smallfarmlife

More TRUTH about farming. The fertilizer crisis isn't one.
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Chicks around a waterer.

Less than a week old.

#SmallFarmLife

Tabby cat standing on a lap inside a barn.

Tabby cat sitting on a desk.

Tabby cat laying on a desk

Tabby cat sitting on a desk.

I lost my best buddy this week - Cleo the cat. She woke me up almost every morning to be let outside at 2-3am, always coming back at 5-6am. One morning this week she did not come back. It took me a day to find her and it was not pretty...🧵

#CatsOfBluesky #SmallFarmLife

A solid white 3 day old Nigerian Dwarf kid standing on a wooden ramp in a pole barn.

Doe cleaning her young kid in a hay strewn pole barn

It must be spring! Congratulations to Junebug for another healthy kid - and a girl this time! A great start to the Ostara celebration :)
#spring #Ostara #goats #SmallFarmLife #gratitude

Lttle lambs from last year, encountering something new.
#SkySheep #SmallFarmLife

Which is, of course, how many of our forebears did it.

And how many #SmallFarmLife people do it.

Thank you for sharing your hard-earned knowledge, Ethan.

Hi! Troubleshooting the goat cameras. These are fabulously handy tools for kidding season. I still wake up through the night to keep an eye on suspect does. But I just have to look at my phone. No need to trundle to the goat yard every 2 hours for checks.
#smallfarmlife #goatsky #goatfatmer

Eartha is getting pretty rolly polly in her late stage pregnancy.
#sanclementeislandgoats #goatsky #smallfarmlife #rarebreedgoat #criticallyendangeredgoat #livestockconservancy #theliminalfarmstead

Big ol' pile of rabbit shit topped with some hay underneath a rabbit hutch. Some of the poop has been shoveled out.

Close up of a big ol' pile of rabbit shit topped with some hay underneath a rabbit hutch. Some of the poop has been shoveled out, and an overgrown garden bed can be seen in the background, bordered by cedar logs.

I love keeping rabbits - relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain (especially when our veggies are growing), provide us with clean, lean protein, and an endless supply of the best fertilizer in the world 🌱🐇💩

#SmallFarmLife

The roost inside our chicken coop. My white Silkie is at the very edge looking to her right at her boyfriend, a tiny Bantam rooster with orange feathers that are scattered with white and brown speckles and a long black tail. He is squished up against a bird five times his size named Abby, who is a lavender orpington and is a silvery color. The way she is sitting makes her look extra fat but I promise she is a healthy weight.

Oh, no. Big Abby has stolen Dwayne "The Cock" Johnson away from Karen! Will the Bantam Power Couple be able to survive this betrayal?!
Stay tuned for As the Coop Turns...
#BackyardChickens #Chickens #Birds #Drama #Animals #SmallFarmLife (It's really a mini suburban farm!)

Treats for the sheepies every morning. Lambing season will start any day now.

#sheep #smallfarmlife #goodmorning