Thursday, April 29, 2010
A Little Shopping Trip
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Yesterday afternoon Cadence and I went on a road trip to check out a couple of Craigslist ads : one for a small commercial convection oven and one for a family milk cow. We didn't fall in love with the oven, but we did fall in love with the sweet cow. She is a small Jersey-Shorthorn cross and extremely friendly. She'll stand still to be milked in the field without even being tied up. She is giving about 4 gallons a day, more than enough for us!
She knows her name - Lafonda - and comes when called. Her owners have a livestock trailer and will deliver her to us on Sunday --I'll let you know how our our first milking adventure goes.
A small, diverse permaculture farm (and now, Bakery!) in beautiful SE Minnesota - our dream come true life focused on Local Food, Local Art, Local Music.
Roger and Susan's Excellent Adventure
In September 2008, we dived into our dream of creating a small, sustainable farm. Neither of us has previous farming experience, but we have enthusiasm and many ideas for this little 10-acre farmstead.
Our Links
Labels
- ``Food (5)
- Amphibians (9)
- Aquaponics (32)
- Art (65)
- Autumn (83)
- Bakery (3)
- Barn (33)
- Bees (43)
- Birds (37)
- Bison (2)
- Books (2)
- Buildings (31)
- Cadence (84)
- Cats (42)
- Cheesemaking (6)
- Chickens (141)
- Classes (2)
- Community Cluckers (2)
- Compost (4)
- County Fair (2)
- Cow Puja (11)
- Cows (176)
- CSA (20)
- Dairy (18)
- Dark Days Challenge (5)
- Day of the Dead Feast (1)
- Dogs (66)
- Ducks (34)
- Eggs (1)
- Farm Beginnings (1)
- Farm Store (17)
- Farmers Market (39)
- Fish (2)
- Flowers (88)
- Food (90)
- Foraging (7)
- Friends (40)
- Garden (168)
- Geese (36)
- Geology (2)
- Granary (25)
- Greenhouse (13)
- Guests (42)
- Guinea Hens (16)
- Harvest Monday (2)
- Heritage (3)
- High Tunnel Greenhouse (37)
- House (14)
- Houseplants (5)
- Insects (6)
- Interns (42)
- Kickstarter! (7)
- Kitchen Project (12)
- Life on the Farm (211)
- Livestock (109)
- Maple Syrup (10)
- Mead (1)
- Mini Library (1)
- Mushrooms (8)
- Music (29)
- Nature (1)
- Neighborhood (29)
- Orchard (4)
- Pests (22)
- Picnic Operetta (3)
- Pigs (12)
- Pizza oven (28)
- Planting (14)
- Pond (10)
- Prairie (31)
- Prairie Air Radio (1)
- Radio Show (1)
- Recycling (8)
- Roger (52)
- Sara (32)
- Sculpture Garden (1)
- Sheep (14)
- Sky (23)
- Snow (91)
- Solar Energy (13)
- Spring (86)
- Sprouts (6)
- Summer (94)
- Sunrise/Sunset (48)
- Susan (44)
- Sustainability (2)
- Theater (1)
- Tools and Equipment (58)
- Travel (12)
- Trees (17)
- Turkeys (43)
- Vegetables (81)
- Water (6)
- Weather (38)
- Wedding (8)
- Wildflowers (26)
- Wildlife (29)
- Willys Truck (10)
- Winemaking (3)
- Winter (171)
- Woods (15)
- Wordless (148)
- Worms (1)
- Wovel (7)
- WWOOFers (23)
4 comments:
What a doll! Good luck with her!
Wow!!! She's adorable!!! And 4 gallons a day! Whew! How exciting. I can't wait to hear more about her.
Lafonda!! How cute! She's adorable...she has the Jersey head and the shorthorn spots. Good luck with milking! And we can't even keep up with our milk from the goat...I can't imagine 4 gallons a day!
She's beautiful! And sounds as though she has a lovely disposition, too. You may need a couple of teenage boys to drink all that milk! ;-D I remember watching my grandfather milk the cows and I made butter with my grandmother. I have her butter churn and cherish the memories it brings to mind! ~~Rhonda
Post a Comment