Are you my mother?

Sugar is the little filly we adopted when she was very young. Her mama died and she was orphaned so we took her in and have been raising her. The other day, she was curious about the Mangalitsa pigs and was over sniffing at them. Sugar has a bit of an identity crisis because she has been raised with our orphaned calf, MooMoo. Now Sugar thinks she may be a calf and MooMoo thinks he may be a horse. For a while, she thought she might be a pig!

On Friday, the elk knocked down a section of our fencing and Sugar and MooMoo took off across the neighbors rangeland. He was very kind and put them into one of his corrals until we could go to retrieve them. Around 5:00, we took my little old horsetrailer down there and sent them up the chute. That was fine until we asked them to get into the trailer. That didn't quite go as we hoped. We finally were able to talk MooMoo into it, but Sugar didn't feel the need. We took the calf home and put him in the pen and went back for her. Finally our wonderful son-in-law Travis (he's a horse trainer) came and showed us how it's done. When we got back to the house, MooMoo and Sugar ran up to each other and rubbed their noses. It was really cute.

We have started irrigation on some hay fields to hold them over until we get rain. It looks promising that we might be blessed this week - we sure hope so.

Vegetables are going into the ground, but it is still a bit early for most spring veggies. We'll have to wait to see how they are done.

We are planning to start a CSA this summer. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Basically, it means that we will find people that would like to eat our yummy pesticide free produce and free range eggs. they will sign up for a "subscription" and receive a bag of them each week for a predetermined amount of time. We will have a delivery day and time and will meet in town for distribution. Additionally, members will be encouraged to visit the farm to see where their food comes from. Recipes and "surprises" will accompany the food. Stay tuned for more information.