We had all of our feta sold before market this week, so I didn’t have to sit at the market on Saturday morning! A nice surprise. We’ll be making more chevre tomorrow, as well as another fancy mouldy cheese – one with a wrinkly bloomy rind, a piece of straw running through the middle of it, and a light rolling of ash on the outside. Very excited.
I have more calendula flowers to pick and steep in oil. I lost 75% of my previously beautiful tomato plants to light blight and my brassicas got devoured near to disaster during our recently heavy rainfall. Peppers, for the first time, are doing fabulously.
We finally got around to having some holes along our newly fenced back pasture filled in, so the goats got let out into it for the first time today. It’s about three acres, but given their size they look totally lost in it. And given that they have yet to be brave enough to take more than eight steps away from their paddock, they look totally lost in it. Can’t wait to get some more animal pals to stick in there. We’d like a smattering of Scottish Blackface Sheep, perhaps a couple Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, and a couple of Highland cows. I like cute and delicious.
We need to repair some drainage tile in our big field. We’ve been waiting for someone to come and do it for weeks, hopefully it happens soon. We were also eyeing up a strip of land beside our driveway, this beautiful green space tucked under a row of willows, picturing it too fenced. When I actually walk over and stand in it, I realize how big it is, how it is way bigger than most backyards I have ever resided beside. And how little I use it.
I can’t wait to get more use out of our land.
What a lovely picture! I have to ask, what kind of camera are you using? Every time I come for a good read on your blog I am always astounded by how amazing your images are!
must be nice to have more land than you know what to do with! i am laughing so hard right now cause we just rented 2 goats to clear our teeny front yard of weeds, and one of them got on the porch and pooped right outside of our front door. yeah, city living is a bit cramped. but at least all the neighborhood kids came over to visit today and pet the goats!
Alpacas?
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It’s funny, Anthony Stephenson is on the lookout for highland cattle too, you two need to team up and find some! They are what Shannon’s dad had at his farm when I first met him. SO beautiful!
My tomatos got some type of blight too, I used copper spray on them and that halted the blight.