Livestock
Reading a Goat's Body Condition Before It Becomes a Problem
My first goat looked perfectly normal to me for weeks, thick coat, active, eating well, right up until the day our vet ran her...
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Every guide we have published, newest first. Field notes, equipment breakdowns, and the occasional argument with advice that sounds good in a magazine and falls apart on an actual plot.
Livestock
My first goat looked perfectly normal to me for weeks, thick coat, active, eating well, right up until the day our vet ran her...
Livestock
The first birds I lost were not taken by a fox, despite every book I had read warning me about foxes above all else.
Vegetable Growing
A friend brought me a bag of zucchini last summer that had gone from perfectly sized to baseball bat proportions in what she...
Vegetable Growing
By my third season of trying to keep a bed producing continuously, I had planted a second round of lettuce directly on top of...
Soil and Compost
I planted a bag of mixed cover crop seed labeled simply as nitrogen fixer three years ago, tilled it under in spring, and saw...
Soil and Compost
My first compost pile sat for eight months and never got warmer than the air around it.