Ever wonder what you can do with all that extra goat milk?  Try making it into soap:
Originally, Shelley bought the goats to keep her pasture from overgrowing. Goats were easier to manage than cows or horses. She started with Nigerian dwarf goats, which produce milk with the highest amount of butterfat, ideal for making soaps [...]

and it sounds like she shares our  poultry problem .  But the article is primarily about Suzanne McMinn’s discovery of Nigerian Dwarf Goats and goats in general:
Then one day I received an e-mail from a reader of my blog.  She lived nearby and she had Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats.  Nigerian Dwarfs are miniature milkers that [...]

In Iceland, October 24th is considered the First Day of Winter.  The city of Reykjavik is celebrating the day with its traditional Skólavördustígur Icelandic lamb soup, kjötsúpa.The website IcelandicReview shares the recipe:
You can buy up to ten-kilo bags of frozen súpukjöt (“soup meat”) at Icelandic supermarkets for a fair price. The meat has bones and [...]

Overcast.  Gray.  Drizzly.  I thought today would be a miserable day.  Then I walked outside to the unexpected warmth of a nice spring day juxtaposed with the kaleidoscopic ambiance only an autumn day can bring.   October has a few tricks up its sleeve after all.

The backdoor creaks open.  The backyard bleats in response.  Clunky rubber boots thud down the deck steps.  A widespread rustle in the woods rushes towards me.  Heaving an orange, painter’s bucket, water sloshes on my side, on my water-resilient boots, in my water-resilient boots.  Halfway to the barn, the wooded rustle catches up to me.  [...]

Finnemore and Chesapeake commissioned a very talented seamstress (who also happens to be a very talented scientist) to design and craft a new bed for them. Filled with alpaca fiber and other luxurious materials, the new fluffy mattress is a vast improvement over the old one, which provided little cushion for pudgy pig behinds [...]

I knew about the law of diminishing returns from my economics class, but never did I expect that it would be applied so brutally as it has been to my little farm.
Piscataway Acres began with a small flock of laying hens in a tall, white coop across the yard on the edge of the woods. [...]

In a recent post, I noted a trend in Britain towards specially bred miniature pigs or what they are calling teacup pigs. I also predicted that the U.S. would soon follow. It didn’t take long:
This Little Piggy Went to Paris…Hilton
And then on Good Morning Yahoo!, a major news outlet introducing the public to [...]

Beebee, the last of the six piglets, has found a new home.  We wish him well with his new friends and family and will remember him and his siblings fondly.  Juniper sends her love to you all.

I won’t even say it.  A cold and rainy day, the pigs hardly left the house.   Suffice it to say summer is over.