Blog Post 1 - Once upon a time…

“Once upon a time” is the beginning to so many fun stories. Starting this blog, I realize I will share how much I dream, scheme, and let my imagination take over. I have always loved animals and so our path to this farm feels fairly natural, but resulted in many mis-adventures.

My husband and I bought our first farm out West (we are currently living on our second farm - East Coast) around 2016 and promptly brought on six Jacob Sheep, an unruly 110 pound Great Pyrenees Mountain dog to guard them (this did not take at all, although he became a superb chicken guard dog), and a llama that escaped twice and lead me all over our old farming community before we changed strategy. I’ll share a few of these stories here, and maybe a some of the experience we gained through trial and error, and from friends and mentors (we love our West Coast former neighbors) will either be helpful to some or just make you laugh. Laughter is great.

Rule One: always prep and mend fences ahead of bringing animals in. Our six sheep delivered in the back of a covered pick up truck. The sellers, small farmers themselves, opened the truck rear bed door and pulled them out gently when they cowered in the back. Once the first two were out, they happily explored our field and ate some of the best grass in the country. After a month or two of worrying about local coyotes eating them, and reading online at 3am about best management practices, I found a beautiful speckled llama on craigslist. We bought her, and she also was delivered. About our fences: old t-posts supported rusted wire mesh. We had erected a five-foot no climb fence along the front road, with a sturdy Behlen farm gate and motor, but the field fences were a work in progress. The day our llama, Pisco Sour, delivered, we were hammering up a few more t-posts and patches.

I asked the seller what he suggested doing and he said to put her in the sheep shed (a fully-enclosed livestock shed), and encircled by our old field fence), but as we watched her crash around he said we could try letting her out. So we did. And watched her just plow over and through our flimsy wire fence and take off across the neighbors back acreage - 40 to 80 acres of plowed grass and hay fields. We watched in dismay, and after seeing her run up a ridge and start to circle back to look at the only herd in view (our sheep), we told the unhelpful seller to head out, we would chase her down. Thus began the Pisco Sour saga, which I will recount more of soon. You can also check back for stories such as: Bull on the front lawn - not ours! and Lost Bat shipment, rabies lesson and other neat feats.

Blog Post Two - Llama Drama

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.

Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.

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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.

Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.