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Merry Monday

Merry Mondays are little recaps where Merry shares a fresh look at life here at Merry Meadows. These posts highlight updates with animals, gardens, products, and projects. It’s a way to keep connected to the pace of the farm. Whether you visit occasionally or this is your first time here, Merry Monday brings farm life to you!

Happy Spring!! We finally made it! Winter just had to get one more cold snap in before moving over for Spring. We had tomatoes, yellow squash and zucchini planted in the ground. We…

With this crazy weather, not only are the humans getting sick, but the animals are too. Today we had to take Daphne, the pregnant Nigerian Dwarf goat, to the vet. She has a…

Here is to another week on the farm where everyday brings something new. It is difficult to make hard and fast plans, because “the farm” has other ideas. That is what keeps it…

It was a bang of a start to last week. Two babies born within an hour of each other. Both were bucklings. A buckling is a baby boy goat. The first doe to…

On Tuesday of this last week we had a baby Boer goat born at about 3:00pm. All of the dogs alerted us to the birth. By the time we got to the barn…

Remember, when I said last week that Old Man Winter would be coming back? Well, he did come back and brought us a beautiful snow. I enjoyed looking at the huge flakes of…

Looking back on last week the weather was absolutely beautiful! Seventies in January is a gift. One day it even topped off at 81°F!  With warmer weather brings better egg production. Chickens lay…