Our carbon footprint
When talking about climate change, footprint is a metaphor for the total impact that something has. And carbon is a shorthand for all the different greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. The term...
Category: Homesteading
Subterranean Water Pipe Blues
Bob Dylan fans will tell me that I’m ripping off the title to ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’. A pipe dream to suggest that my water pipe woes have anything in common with Dylan’s 1965 song,...
Dead Thirsty: Pt. 2
Last week I told you that we were away for a couple of days and came home to find a dead thirsty Delores marooned with her week-old kids in a paddock that didn’t have...
Dead Thirsty: Pt. 1
One goat dead and one goat dead thirsty: Delores dead thirsty and the wether dead. Now that the trauma is behind us, we’re back to appreciating life on the bright side. A mix of...
Hay In, Muck Out
We flex our muscles and our resolve: there’s hay to get in and a goat house to muck out. It’s a good time for both to happen as the summer calendar threatens to flip-over...
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