life... on the farm: Not so quick fix

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Not so quick fix

A few weeks back I broke our poop rake. Not wanting to run to the store in the middle of chore time, I grabbed the poop scoop rake that we usually take to shows. I worried it would be a pain to use because it's shorter. As it turns out, the fact it's short isn't the problem:

The problem is that the teeth on the rake bounce around and don't grab well. This is the worst poop scoop rake I have ever used. I can't wait to purchase a different one. The problem being, every time I'm in the store I forget about it, and everytime I am doing farm chores I curse the fact I have forgotten.

1 comment:

Kathryn Ray said...: I don't mean to laugh, but that sort of stuff happens to me too. I hate those little show rakes.

I forgot to get a backup rake this summer, so I'm hoping ours holds out until spring.; December 15, 2011 at 9:31 PM

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The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.