Growing the farm.

The weather is decidedly cooler since our last rainy spell. Now there is a cool wind blowing and the temps max out at 75 F or so. I can feel Fall in the air. We are trading our window fans for electric heaters. We have been collecting heaters all summer at various yard sales. This little farmhouse has no heat, except for the wood stove, which has not been cleaned, chimney included for what, ten years or more? I'm going to try and avoid using it, if possible.

Thankfully there is a lot of solar gain here, and except for the windows losing the heat at night, the house does get pretty warm during the day. We have put up some foam insulation over about half the windows in the hope of cutting down on the heat loss.

Foam insulation on sunroom (our bedroom) windows

This week, we dug potatoes out of one of our potato beds. We got 10 pounds, maybe. Not great, but not bad, considering we used our organic grocery store potatoes that started to sprout. We have two more potato beds to dig.

Pretty potatoes.

This is a big week. Yesterday we went to pick up an intact, male alpaca that our neighbor hay farm is getting rid of. His name is Alfonso, and he is pure white, which means, I can dye some wool.

Alfonso the alpaca.

We also met with a nice family who is re-homing their milk goats to us. We gave them a tour of the farm and tomorrow we are going over to their place to pick up some goats. I think there are five females. Three mamas and two doelings. Some polled. I think the goat herd is adequate now.

We have goat milk and cheese available here at the farm, if anyone wants to stop by to try some.