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Cutie baby goats and a great idea repurposing sweaters. Thanks for the seed timing tips again!
I grew brussels sprouts years ago for the first time, also celery and the brussels sprouts were loaded! Had aphids, but I soaked them in salt water and got them all off. Fresh ones are so delicious
Your goatie girls and babies in sweaters are cute. Good idea.
Jess, I gotta say(again), every time life stresses me out I watch (or listen while I’m Chorin’) to your videos. Doesn’t matter if it’s an oldie or a new one, they just soothe the soul. Jeremiah and the kids make me laugh, Daniel’s music is soothing, and you never fail to help me smile and hope and remember Who to thank for the abundant blessings in my life. You truly do bless me every time. Thanks for that!
Adding Organic Compost makes all vegetables taste better.
What a great time! Thanks for sharing!
I put my favorite doe in with her 1st year kid they had both kidded and the yearling started nurseing on the older doe. I had to sell the doeling and her kid. I had to quit letting any of the kids nurse .
Jess you need to make & sell those baby goat sweaters! Collect old sweaters from people. My cousin does that with mittens
Love the video, both goat babies and the garden…yes, we are in zone 8b and will be soon that we will be starting our seeds in our greenhouse…new year, new life
I think it is the texture. I bought frozen ones this year and couldn't believe how much nicer they were than the "fresh" ones from the supermarket. You really have to reduce the cooking time though, from what you're used to.
Whay breed/breeds is Bear?
I wondered about homegrown brussel sprouts. Cause I dont like them, but hubby does. So I'm going to try again.
Love to watch your you-tube videos. I watch them over and over. My garden last year took off after watching your tomatoes video. Trying a bunch of new varieties this year! Thanks…. keep them coming! #tomatoesandwichesrule
Oh, my goodness! Are you friends with HIdden Heights Farms? They have something like 14 boys and 1 girl right now. So funny it happened to you once too ! Well, he's not thrilled with it. haha! The goats are precious, just precious!!!
Well done! I've done much the same thing. My holey sweat pants get turned into shorts and I take the bottoms and turn them into sweaters for our baby goats. The cuffed or elastic end becomes the neck and then I just cut holes for the front legs. Works really well for those frozen nights! Also, I changed my breeding schedule so that we only kid out in March now 🙂
Hey sweet Jess, thank you for keeping on posting about your daily life. I missed you because I was away too long. Somehow my work in the seed/plant-company got me completely consumed, and I just couldn't bear watching you develop and fulfil my dream. Even though it was the very reason I found you, years ago.
Yesterday I started catching up. Don't know why, other than that I miss you and your positivity, missing to sit at your life's table and enjoy the blessings and bear the losses with you.
Today I started with the goat kidding vlogs, since it's FINALLY weekend, and now that I watch this one, I just started crying. I feel SO at home with the life you show us, and SO at peace watching it all. I even smelled the barn, animals, straw, hay… (the ups and downs of high sensitivity). I started to ask my husband (again) when we will be able to find our own little farm, and I couldn't finish my sentence. Of course our youngest (6 y.o. next week) stepped in, so she startled, in awe, and didn't ask (yet) what I was crying about. I'm looking forward to that little conversation though.
I had to tell you.
I know you always say to make the waiting time a classroom-time, and we do. I know more about eatable plants, their seeds, taking care of it all in -15C to 35C temperatures, and I love it. Talking with the buyers and advising them about nurturing and taking care of it all, is very rewarding. But then it's out of my hands. Classroom goes on. Still I felt beaten down while comparing my possibilities with my dreams.
In 6 years, we are able to move out of the country, to a place with more space to build our dream, but it's such a long wait.
O well, I just wanted to let you know I'm still alive, (if you remember me, seeing you as a good friend, writing long stories to you about everything 😉 ) and working harder as ever to save money. And do the classroom-thing…
And I just want you to know that I LOVE your way of portraying your lives and sharing that with the world. I guess all your viewers feel like your soul-mate-friends 😉
Thank you for being vulnerable to us.
I thank God for you, and pray for your lives and farm.
I bless you too <3
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I ordered her book but still have not received it. Is this common? Any idea when I’ll get it? We are in planning mode and I wanted to read it first.
If it were me, I’d have at least hung up some blankets across the gates of the stalls, to keep direct cold air from blowing on the baby goats. I felt that way about the baby pigs too. I would’ve had them in sheds with an inside wall with a maze-like path inside, to direct them into a secure corner room/space out of the wind. It’s sad to think of newborn animals subjected to very cold weather.
Cool 🙂 . We bought calf coats at our local stores when they became a thing & available about 20 yrs ago now, and I have a few tips to share on the topic of using such things. #1 : Be sure to take them off on warmer days, at least, if they have a place out of any cold breeze to hang out. They can get too hot &/or sweaty and then get sick easier from that. Plus, only using them when they need em is my next point. So, while if you're inexperienced esp., u may want to err on the side of keeping your young animal from getting seriously cold-stressed, U do want to let them grow their thicker, winter under-hair and slapping jackets on them as soon as it starts getting cold, prevents this and now they will not only be dependent on them for the rest of the winter, but possibly need 2 layers of em in the bitter cold – that can get expensive, difficult & again, and create way more management and supervision needed from u. BTW The reason babies need some help with the cold is that their body mass per weight is very different from the adults, and the babies lose heat way faster. That's the reason I do believe in using them at all vrs. an approach of never using em to try to only let em toughen em up. In nature, animals are generally born in spring and ones that come early or in fall, would just often die if it was too cold. And that's ok, in nature esp. , as u want the genetics that don't do risky things, it's not always gunna be genetic related, no, but since overall most things can be, It's still the best way. But u can't always afford to let nature take it's course with your own animals and all too often it had nothing to do with the genetics & all to do with your own management.
Hi Jess, I am also in Arkansas and just getting into Nubian goats. They will be kidding soon. Do you worm your does after kidding? Curious about your parasite management practices. I want to avoid worming if at all possible and we try to rotate our goats around pastures a lot. But I’m new to goats so still learning.
Squirrels hate daffodils! You can plant all you want of them! Believe me…I'm here in Lake Arrowhead, Calif. where you can visit the daffodil gardens every early spring!
How do you know when it is time to "up-pot" seedlings (if it's not time to transplant them out into the garden yet).
Hey Jess,
For someone who doesn't have a green thumb (but wants one) and has no idea about different vegetable seasons, do you have a written to do list based off of frost dates?