Recycling the Christmas Tree

The goats have been eating just hay and oats now for months.  Goats love to browse trees and will eat as high up as they can reach.  I thought they might enjoy the old Christmas tree.  What do you think?

Busy Making Soap

Now that Christmas is over for another year, it's time to start replenishing my stock of goats milk soap.
If you've followed this blog for a while, you'll know that I have goats.  I love my goats, but they are a handful.  They are intelligent and do funny things that make me laugh.  They also get into trouble and wreck things that make me cry,  All in all, I'm glad I have them .... Lyle won't say the same thing.....  Sometimes I just have to ignore him. 

This year I'm going to try making cheese.  I love feta cheese and I buy lots of it.   Like everything else on this farm, I figure  that I should be making my own.  I will update with pictures after kidding when I have a milk supply again.

In the meantime though, I am busy making goats milk soap.  Naturally made soap  with goat's milk is very moisturizing on your skin.  The natural glycerin is left in the soap as well.  Store bought soap contains detergent and petroleum derived ingredients.  As well, they have removed the glycerin to sell separately.

Check out the "Product Available to Order" page to find out what fragrances we have available.

Beef For Sale

We finally got a steer butchered and now have beef for sale

As always, our animals are chemical, hormone and antibiotic free and are butchered in an inspected facility.

Lean ground beef               $3.50/lb                     Round Roasts or Steaks        $5.50/lb
Sirloin Steaks or Roasts     $5.50/lb                     T-Bone Steaks                      $6.50/lb
Rib Steaks                         $5.50/lb                     Short Ribs                             $3.50/lb
Roasts Cross Rib. Sirloin and Round       $5.50/lb
Soup Bones                      $2.00/lb


Also available - Beef Family Pack  $100.00

Includes the following with approximate weights
12 lb Lean Ground Beef
4 T-Bone or Rib Steaks
1 3-4lb Roast
3lb Round Steak

Regina Farmers' Market

We just found out that we've been approved as vendors at the Regina Farmers' Market.  We will be selling our farm raised pork and lamb.  Although we have not been approved for our other products yet, I am hoping that as spots open, we will have a larger product line.  Very excited about our next step in marketing our product.  See you all in the new year when the market opens after Christmas!

Farm Raised Lamb for Sale

We have started butchering lambs and have the following meat for sale

Loin Chops                        $7.50/lb
Lamb Leg Roast                $7.50/lb
Shoulder Roast                  $6.00/lb
Shoulder Chops                 $6.00/lb
Breakfast Sausage             $6.00/lb

All lambs are processed in a licensed facility and were born this year.

Farm Raised Pork for Sale

Farm raised pork for sale.  No antibiotics or chemicals used on our outdoor healthy pigs.  All meat is pricessed in an inspected facility.

Pork chops      $4.50/lb                Ground Pork          $3.00/lb           Shoulder roasts or chops $3.00
Ham                 $5.50/lb                Leg roast               $4.50/lb           Pork Ribs                       $4.50/lb
Bacon              $4.00/lb                Side pork               $3.00/lb

Family pack  $50.00   includes 5lb pork loin chops, 2 lb shoulder chops, 4 lb ham or leag roast, 1 lb bacon, 1 lb ground pork.

Well. winter has settled in on us.  Already we have had more snow that we did all last winter.  We have been so busy this fall that not all the winter prep jobs got done.  I'm trying to get caught up, but I think winter will come and go before I do.

All the round straw bales are still out in the field so I have to drive out with the tractor and pick one up when I need it.  Fortunately, it wasn't too cold today - our John Deere tractor has no cab.

The cows and sheep are running together this winter, sharing a pen with a large 3-sided shed.  It gets bedded with straw whenever they need it for sleeping on.  That is, of course, if they don't eat it all.  The animals will leave their hay bale and come and eat the oat straw.  For some reason they think it's a treat.