The progress of our farm has had ups and downs over the years. Not everything and not all the time, but for most of our 17 years, we have...

Each year starts with a bevy of lambs being born. And it's not just a joke that ewes love to give birth in the worst storms. So we wait...

Probably.... Turkey weekend is our biggest weekend of the year. I plan for it all year long. It's a great opportunity to meet my...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JULY 2013 I'm bringing back this post because it is relevant again today: OK dear customers, at the end of this...

It takes me a while to decompress after fair. It's always such a whirlwind, and so different than daily life. Not a vacation, by any...

You know I like data, right? What would life be without my sheep spreadsheet... I was making some updates today - some that made me sad....

When I got my MBA over 20 years ago (WHAT?), I remember being struck in my entrepreneurship class by a statement my professor made - that...

Happy New Year! It's lamby time! We have a batch of young ewes that are pregnant and expecting any time now. Since the first of the year,...

Well, what a way to start the new year. New Years morning, I went out to let the animals out and feed the pigs. Their water tank was...

Our first two sheep were named Laverne and Shirley. This isn't new news, they were such lovely sheep. If it weren't for them, we likely...

Alright folks, I'm gonna lay it out there. For DECADES now, I have mostly had male dogs and I have always felt that I bond better with...

Being a livestock farm that produces meat, we say a lot of goodbyes here. Some are harder than others. Some we may put off longer than we...

OK, I'm not saying that all Farming is a failure, and I am not saying farms or farmers are failures. But I am saying that if you are...

I KNOW! I'm a farmer in Colorado, we should never complain about free water from the sky. Folks out east of the MIssissippi don't...

Yeah, it's been a year. And I am making decisions as an animal-lover, not as a farmer. Stuff happens, but too much stuff has been...

A warning that this post is very disjointed. I started it months ago, and couldn't finish it. So some parts read in past tense, and...

OK, I'll warn you first that this might be stream-of-consciousness, it kind of came to me while I was washing eggs yesterday. I noticed...

I know I've spoken before about the plethora of spreadsheets I keep to manage the farm. Or, Spreadsheeps, as it were. I track the...

I was looking through photos today and a wave of sadness hit me. Wix recently added a 500MB limit to storage here, so I had to clean up...

We finally got the barn cleaned!! This has become a real struggle for us, physically, as the years go on. In the last 2 years or so, age...