People give us their Christmas trees to feed to the goats (and later use as firewood). The first trees normally start to arrive on Boxing Day with the majority arriving in early January. This time however, people have started early by giving us their tree stubs! The goats are having an early treat ..read more

  Penny, our best milking goats, has been lactating for over 2 years. There was a short period of a few weeks in winter earlier this year when she stopped pumping out the milk, but by spring she was back into milk production. All this without her being mated. We had been hoping she would stop lactating this autumn. We have reduced her frequency of milking to once every three or four days but she still produced two litres each time. We want her mated as any nanny kids will be very valuable for future milking. So we have put her in with the billy. She went in a week ago and to ensure she ..read more

  The harvests are still coming in. This video explains what needs to be picked ..read more

  We got a big load of tomatoes recently in a produce swap. When a glut appears, the normal response is to turn some of it into soup. That's what happened here. Very pleasant ..read more

  One of our goats, Penny, is still pumping out lots of milk. We turn most of it into cheese and recently we had a go at making feta. Alas, as you can see, it was something of a disaster. Far too much salt, never mind the mold. As it was indigestible, sadly we had to throw it out ..read more

  We have bought hay from the neighbouring farm rather than make our own this year as the sheep are on our hay field. We took delivery of 2 bales on Friday which were dropped into the goat paddock. They were all over them in no time ..read more

  We have a new ram (see video above). He is a Cheviot and we bought him to breed with our Texels. But he needs a name. Fell free to post up your suggestions and we will choose the best ..read more

  This was dinner earlier this week - game casserole in orange sauce. All ingredients except the oranges were either produced by us or swapped. Very enjoyable ..read more

  Lunch yesterday: potatoes grown on our farm and eggs from our hens. There is goat cheese in the omelette. A very pleasant lunch ..read more

  The next Focus on Saltwell is currently being delivered in the ward so I volunteered for 2 patches this morning. It didn't take too long as most streets are terraces with small front gardens. I delivered 450 in about an hour and a half. As Halloween is almost upon us, some households have gone to great lengths to decorate their himes. This house, my favourite, has a spider theme ..read more