Every night we milk Rosie who lost her kids and now produces milk for our hurt piglets. Goats have a lot of personality, enjoy scratches on the head and hugs around the belly and seem to genuinely like people. In addition their meat is supposedly better nutritionally than beef and tastes great. In the photo below Rosie is standing in front and Mary, the previous milk goat and now aging old lady is standing behind her.

Today is also market day. On Wednesdays and Saturdays kate and I head to our local farmers market in carrboro about 40 minutes away. We have the coolest market vehicle, for sure.

Today we had to move some young pigs who escaped previous attempts to our spring/summer stock pen. These are couple month old pigs who will become market pigs later in the year. After weaning, these pigs live together in a big pen as they approach 250-275 pounds. At that point we start catching them a few at a time to bring to slaughter. We move them with this badass tractor.

here’s our very friendly and very pregnant Blanche. We have eight new lambs so far with at least a couple more on the way.

these lovers were found spooning in one of our pens.