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Herding Cattle and Other English Countryside Tasks
Just for fun, Stephen and I rode our bikes to a farm just south of Sheffield and spent five days WWOOFing. Unlike the other farmlets I’ve visited in the UK, this was a real working farm that a family has … Continue reading
Making Hay While The…
Well, you know the rest. That’s right folks. For the first time since Namibia, I experienced a solid week-and-a-half of dry, sunny, beautiful summer weather. And when you’re a farmer in England, a whole week-and-a-half of sun can only mean … Continue reading
Old Redhouse Farm
After four days of rolling in the mud with the English Bhuddists and Pagans, it was animal time again. I spent a week at Old Redhouse Farm, a very new, very small, and very lovely farm in Somerset county. I … Continue reading
Selling to Tourists
This is an island after all, and it’s an island with approximately 120 residents. Given that the residents import almost 100% of their food from the mainland, I think farmers in the area could be doing a lot within the … Continue reading
The Goatman
Ed, the goatkeeper, is as much a part of the fabric of this farm as the goats and the rain and the island landscape. Originally from England, he has kept goats on this land for more than thirty years. Of … Continue reading
Two Extraordinary Goats
Oilean Oilean (which means “Island” in Irish) has lived with a buck in the herd for a couple years, but she has never kidded. Normally this would be bad news for a milk goat, as no kid = no milk … Continue reading
Goats At Last!
By boat and by bicycle, through injury, rain, and headwinds, I finally made it to Cleire Goats. It’s a tiny little farm on tiny little Clear Island, off the southern coast of County Cork, and it’s the first proper goat … 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