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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Most Exciting Cheese Yet?
Because of the drought, the goats don’t have much milk right now. They have enough for their kids, and a little more. So cheese production won’t really be starting until after Easter, when Romuald slaughters most of the kids. But … Continue reading
Working by Hand
I don’t like working with machines. They are expensive to buy and to run, and especially when I’m involved, they break easily. So, I want to learn to work with goats with as few machines as possible. This is a … Continue reading
“There’s Nothing to Eat Here”
The farmers at this farm basically use the “no fences, no neighbors” system of grazing that we learned at Coonridge. They walk the goats out of the barn in the morning, the goats eat what they want and come back … Continue reading
Teats, Bottles, Buckets, Syringes
Since we arrived during kidding season, we get to learn not just about the births themselves, but also about caring for kids. There is a demand here for kid meat, so Romuald and Agathe raise all of the kids at … Continue reading
Mise-Bas
Literally: putting below. It’s the French word for an animal birth. We arrived at this beautiful farm in Corsica, chez Romuald and Agathe, right in the middle of kidding season. In all my work with goats, I had never seen … Continue reading
To France and Beyond
Bikes safely in the hands of strangers, we said goodbye to Spain and took a twenty-four hour bus from Granada to Toulon, France. It was surprisingly painless. The worst moment was when we made our dinner-time rest stop at a cafeteria … Continue reading
How to get a bike from Spain to France (without riding it)
Remember how I said we had errands to do in Granada? Sorting out our transportation situation was one. Sorting out the transportation situation for our bikes was the other. Like my last post, this one is less for my usual … Continue reading
Never buy a Eurail pass if you will be traveling in Spain.
If you don’t think you’ll ever need this advice, feel free to ignore this post. But after our terrible experience with Eurail, I feel like I should post this story online because it will probably be useful to somebody else. … Continue reading
This is Spain
After about two and a half weeks at Cortijo el Manzano, Rob and I loaded up our bikes one last time and made the half-day ride from the farm to Granada. We had errands to do in town, but we … Continue reading