I finished reading this book today, and have 6 things to say as a result: 1. Go buy or borrow Goat Song, even if you don’t desire goat herding as a career. It’s well written: literature, history, cooking, poetry, humor, and pastoral living all rolled into one. 2. A goat book made me tear up on three occasions. Things that […]
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Raw Goat Milk, Please?
07/31/2011
This morning, I’ve been surfing the internet to find raw goat milk for sale. I want to try making my own chevre and mozzarella cheeses. It turns out it is legal to sell raw goat milk from a farm in Illinois, but not legal to advertise it. Hunh? Time to gas up the Guzzler and start driving around to goat farms, […]
Seven Hundred Miles on Saturdays
07/26/2011
Barbara Kingsolver got me out of my local chain grocery, into the Guzzler, and out to the farms. I thank her mentally for writing Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and I thank my Mom and sister for telling me to read the book. The narrative covers a year in the life of Kingsolver’s family, once they chose to move from the drought of […]
Get Your Goat
03/23/2011

Is the name of the class I attended yesterday at the Angelic Organics Learning Center in Caledonia, Illinois. There is so much going on out there! I encourage you to click on the Angelic Organics link to the right and explore this wonderful farm. You may become a shareholder in the spring and have fresh […]
08/03/2011
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