Around the Farm

Today has been a long day here at the farm.  As usual we are up early to get ready for the market.
It's a beautiful day for the market, a nice fall breeze flows around with leaves blowing in the wind.

The market was nice with customers enjoying the weather without it being so hot you can't breath.
Lots of customers tasted our pumpkin cheese which has been brought back just in time for Thanksgiving. We bring this flavor of cheese out in October every year and only have it around until January 1st.

After we came home from the market it was cheese lifting time. 12 gallons of milk turned into cheese was lifted and now hanging in the cheese room. This cheese will be taken down tomorrow, flavored and packaged for the next market.  Feta cheese will also be made tomorrow.

The girls are getting fat and sassy, it will not be long now before babies, we will not keep any babies this year. We want our yearlings to grow up more and be ready for milking.

We can heardly wait as babies are always fun!

See you at the markets!

Julie

We have been really busy today at the farm making cheese, tending to goats and the usual farm chores.

Our new baby Alpine buck named Ace thinks he is human.  He follows me everywhere I go and is into everything.  He loves hugs and gets plenty of them here. He is so cute, I really think he does not know he is a goat.

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It seems that life around the farm is never dull. I wash the pastuerizer, sanitize the pastuerizer and get the milk into the pastuerizer and it all set up and started.  I have been busy around the kitchen going crazy getting ready for market tomorrow and also trying to catch up with e-mail.  Well got the e-mail
caught up pastuerizer going now trying to work on what types of cheese are going to the market tomorrow.

We have been on baby watch but it seems they always have the babies when you are not looking.
As soon as we can pictures of the new babies we will.

See ya,
Julie

We are currently on goat kidding watch.  It's about time for the babies to arrive. We are excited with anticipation of the new arrivals.  It's a busy time here around the farm!

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We are luckly so far here in Texas we have had a mild winter. Our pregnant does are fat and sassy and getting ready to kid. Moms having babies in hard winters is not fun! We are busy around the farm anticipating the arrival of the new babies and can't wait to post pictures.

The cheese kitchen is always busy and buzzing around processing, flavoring and packing.

This sunday will be soap day when we will make lots of log molds ready for cutting and shelving for drying.

Until next time.

See you at the markets!

Julie

http://pakagri.blogspot.com/2012/01/goats-milk-have-you-herd-benefits.html
 Here is a really good article I found on the benefits of Goat Milk.

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