Air's Wild Acres
Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.
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A Vote for Agriculture is a Vote for All of US
Current Mood, October 2, 2024: After receiving an email about the onsite certification I have to go through to ensure my egg laying animals are living in a context that provides them “adequate space,” I’m annoyed (again), by the requirements of an animal confinement law that was voted on and passed when I didn’t even Read more
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What I learned in 6 days of straight driving
I have a backlog of things I’ve written over the past few years and never posted on my blog. This morning, I was looking for an entirely different piece I had started a week or two ago, about butchering chickens, and found this one in my archive. It seems fitting today, as we are going Read more
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A Stressful Kidding Season Comes to an End.
Our kidding season started 38 days ago, with our first healthy baby born to Phoebe on January 17. Rachel the Goat followed two weeks later, on February 3, with two healthy babies. I always have to travel in mid-February for work, and luckily, based on dwarf Nigerian gestation and when Bangs paid special attention to Read more
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It’s National Cheese Lover’s Day!
I always thought I loved cheese, but I didn’t realize how much I really loved cheese until I started making it. Much like everything in the food system these days, what you find at the grocery store is such a tiny subset of the diversity that exists among cheeses. The USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS, Read more
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Are Boy Goats Smelly?
Yes, and all the other lessons I’ve learned from my bucks (male goats) in two years. In case you didn’t know, intact male goats are disgusting. They pee on their faces to attract the female goats, which is why they’re so dang smelly, and they have strong opinions about what the ladies should be doing Read more
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Meet the Milk Goats
We’ve had our original dwarf Nigerian dairy goats since 2020, when it made sense to start thinking about access to fresh, good quality milk that the lactose intolerant in our house can drink (goat’s milk is easier on the tums and most who can’t process lactose won’t have as many issues with it). For a… Read more
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