The last few days Kit and her lamb have been kept in one of the nice rooms in the barn that opens up to a small fenced in yard.  They have done well here and both mother and daughter are doing very well.  But Kit seemed anxious to get out into the woods to find [...]

Kit, the Icelandic ewe, gave birth to a healthy, albeit small female lamb.  After a lot of worrying, both mother and daughter appear to be healthy and doing well.  My biggest concern was that Kit wouldn’t accept the little girl, but she has turned out to be a decent enough mother.  Thankfully the lamb is [...]

After several days of very hot temperatures, we had a nice day today.  Most of the day was in the low 70’s and fairly low humidity with a nice breeze.  All the animals had a great time out and about, not having to hide under some shade.  The sheep were particularly grateful as they don’t [...]

It has been a very hot spring and summer.  The animals are doing okay, but they are not happy with the high temperatures.  Because the goats come from Africa and the pigs from Southeast Asia, they are dealing with the heat a lot better than the sheep, from Iceland.  My plan is to sheer the [...]

In  previous post, it was mentioned that Chesapeake dug up a piece of ground for his own garden.  I planted some corn and other items that I thought he would enjoy, then fenced it off with some left over fencing.  I knew the fence wasn’t very strong, but thought that it may give just enough [...]

Darwin the dog has enjoyed many different kinds of lives in his 10 years.  He has been a city dog, a suburbia dog, a beach dog, a mountain dog, and now he is getting to be a farm dog. 
Darwin was planning on going to Alaska with his parents.  He had high hopes of participating [...]

This evening, as I was watering the garden, I noticed several small trees missing from the other side of Piscataway Creek.  As noted in a previous blog, we have been seeing signs of a beaver.  As I continued to water the garden, I was surprised by the bold beaver, surfacing right in front of where [...]

I am allergic to poison ivy and unfortunately, there is a lot of poison ivy here at Piscataway Acres.  I really hate this noxious weed.  Years ago, I would go on poison ivy eradication missions.  I would suit myself up and go out with some toxic substance and spray the nasty plant until it was [...]

As I sit here in the sweltering heat and humidity, I munch on delicious, sweet raspberries picked this morning and placed in the refrigerator to cool.  Although I enjoy them fresh off the vine, on a hot day like today, they are very refreshing to eat chilled.  Raspberries have a great color and I have [...]

A year ago, prior to putting up a wooden privacy fence, we hired a small company to take down a dead tree, but not to haul it away.  Heavy as they were, the remains of that tree were not moved for some time.  It was like a funeral that never ended, a community of bereaved logs dressed as stumps paying [...]