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 Big News on the Farm

Today is goat baby day! We are heading out at lunch tiime to pick up our newest additions to the farm, Coco and Vanna, twin sister goats that are going to be the Matriarchs and the breeding anchors of our eagerly awaited goat herd.  We are going to be breeding these two to build a small heard of goats with the aim of keeping our freezer full and selling the overflow. Since they are twins, and come from a line that has proven multiple births, we feel pretty confident that we can keep our farm in goats and in the black with sales. Coco and Vanna are the two new additions and will join Mrs. Sheep, our hair sheep ewe, and Rambo, a young ram we found pilaging a neighbors lanscape. We will be holdong on to him until the rightful owner has been found, but we are needing another ewe for the sheep flock as of right now.   

In the coming weeks, I will be building a pig pen for or two gilt piggery. And in bigger news, I found a person that not only has Mini cattle on the Island, but will sell one! So a mini moo may be in our future. The main aim for the animals on our farm is so we can be a self sustaining food generating acre. Meat through husbandry and  Veggies through farming. I have been in the planning stages for a reasonably sized garden space that will be high density production. Both in ground plots, raised beds and in the greenhouse, which ever is best suited for the plants to be grown in this locality. We aren't trying to get all tie-dyed earthy, but we do want to be less reliant on shipped in food and a supply chain that can be precarious at best. We do live on an Island in the middle of the pacific ocean where 80-90% of the food is imported by boat and plane.
Once we have the garden finalized, the animals grown and producing offspring, we can turn to landscaping a nicer place for us all to live in. "Pretty" might be secondary to production, but it is important. 
Next time: Photos of the girls in their new home!
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