Spring is in the air here at the Flying T. Our resident Boer Goats, Jessie and Gracie, are off at another farm for a month or so in the hopes that they make very close friends with the buck there. That would bring us kids in September. In their place, we welcomed two more 4-month-old [...]
Posts Tagged ‘freerange’
31 Jan
The Egg Business – Progress Report
Our 7-year-old son runs the egg business on our farm. We paid the startup costs – buying the chicks, converting an emu hut to a coop, and buying feed and supplies. Once the first group started laying, he took over the rest. He now buys the food, cares for the chickens and eggs, markets the [...]
11 Oct
Organic?
When we first started dreaming about our farm, “organic” was high in our priorities. This flows out of our family mission, to glorify God in all ways, and to live that out on our farm by raising, managing, and using His creation in a healthy, sustainable, humane, and respectful manner. Since we planned to produce [...]
4 Oct
Orchardgrass
Though the most common grass used for hay in New England might be Timothy, another very common component of baled forage around here is Orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata). Unlike Timothy, which takes a bit of care to get established, Orchardgrass often finds its own way into pastures and hayfields. Propogating both by seeds and by tillers that spread from its dense, [...]
26 Sep
Forages: Timothy Grass
This is the first installment in the Forage Managment section of our blog. For more information on why I’m doing this, click here. Timothy grass (Phleum pratense, or Herd’s Grass) is most likely the base of hay you buy in New England – it’s the predominant species for most well-cared-for and cultivated hayfields around here. This [...]
14 Sep
NATO Peacekeeping, Family Harmony, and Automatic Chicken Doors
I spent 10 years in NATO assignments, so I’m pretty acquainted with the challenges of trying to accommodate seemingly incompatible desires. Hey, if I could somehow deal diplomatically with both sides of the Aegean Sea dispute between Turkey and Greece, I should be able to figure out a farm, right? Right. OK, we’re not talking [...]
10 Sep
Chickens, Lions, and Beavers… Oh My!
Our family has a weakness for free-range eggs. You may be thinking, “what’s the big deal? Eggs are eggs,” or “Can you really tell the difference?” If so, you haven’t had a truly fresh, free-range egg. I’ll have to save that discussion for a later blog post, but if you’re skeptical, just humor me through [...]
9 Sep
What Does Free Range Mean?
You can do an Internet search of “cage-free” and “free-range” eggs or chickens and see that there really aren’t a whole lot of legal requirements to claim those titles. “Free range” at the Flying T means that as soon as our chicks and ducklings are safely able to live in the outdoors, we let them [...]
8 Sep
New arrivals
A pic of the latest new arrivals at the Flying T, 15 Barred Rocks. I took this just as I ran out the door to work and will update later with better photos.
7 Sep
Our website is live…
… not finished, but live! Check it out at http://www.flyingtnh.com (or click on the link to the right).
A Joyful Birth
