Open House Prep: Goat Gate
Curse: May you be blessed with smart goats! Open House Prep: Goat Gate The goats do keep us on our toes! Last year they broke out of their assigned area during the first Biodynamic tour of our ranch and joined us! As much as I love walking… Read more »
Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: June 22, 2013
Come meet Valley, the goat! Harms Vineyards and Lavender Fields Open House: June 22, 2013 Please join us for a day of tours, talks, sensory delights! June 22, 2012, 10 am to 4 pm Meet our goats! Sip our Lavender… Read more »
Where Goats Become Grass and Lupine
Grass and wildflowers almost obscure the stones of our goats’ graves. Where Goats Become Grass and Lupine This month five years ago we lost two of our dear pygmy goats, first Natalie, then Boris. They were quite old, 14 1/2 years, had long lives, but we miss… Read more »
Goats and Kids
Agaleah Goats and Kids This morning I am reminded of how much farming is like motherhood: Your big plans for the day dissipate when Agaleah holds out her front left foot like a precious, painful offering, and looks at you pleadingly. After careful examination which yields no clues, only… Read more »
End of Crystallization Period Today, and Morning Meditators.
A hawk’s glimpse of Heaven on Earth. End of Crystallization Period Today, and Morning Meditators. Sunny Morning. You can feel spring pushing. Ramon finished tying the canes the day before yesterday, six weeks to the day that he began pruning. He says the buds are developing little hairs and preparing to open. Meanwhile a… Read more »
Storms and Gaviota The weather report says Storms the next few days. Tomorrow only severe thunderstorms and up to 2 inches of rain. The ground is waterlogged already, so we are warned: there could be flooding. But then Thursday, the report continues, we are to be prepared for 6 up to 15 inches of rain. If… Read more »
Goats Honoring Gaia
Gaia and the goats. Goats Honoring Gaia Donald’s daughter Genevieve is a ceramicist who had to move recently to a smaller home. She gave us a Gaia figure to put “in the forest”. When the goats discovered Her, they were very curious, even frightened of something so novel. Now everyday when we walk by they… Read more »
Stretch of meadow to the south is an important animal corridorOur guard llama protects the goats. Loud, piercing coyote howl in the meadow in the early hours of the morning—then a whole pack of yaps dying off to the south. I hope they were not hunting the fawns of the mother doe I saw browsing… Read more »
Wrapping tips of horns with horn tape (obvious reasons!) Having an Open House is a little like having a party in the vineyard and lavender fields. Even the goats have to decide what to wear! To wear a bridle or collar? Come meet the goats, take a Biodynamic tour at our Open House, June 23,… Read more »
Mr. Quail. The Mrs. is in front of him, her head obscured by the blurry grape leaf. The goats heard the alarm cry this morning before I did: Te-te-te-te! Te-te-te-te! They stopped, and a quail couple trotted through the fence and into the vineyard. We won’t hurt you, I said softly, but nevertheless, they ran into… Read more »
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