Milk

There is a book on my shelf titled “The $64.00 Tomato”.  Author William Alexander chronicles his decision to garden in his back yard and the time, money, triumphs, and setbacks along the way to growing his own food.  I was thinking about this book this morning and how it relates to the cost of the generous amount of milk that now rests in our refrigerator.  The price of a quart of goat milk at the grocery store is over $4.00 per quart.  The cost of ours may be around that, I don't know.  It may be more.  It may even be quite a bit more.  Does it matter to me?  Not a bit.  To me, that milk is priceless.

The downstairs fridge is getting full

I am pretty excited that I will  be making some cheese in the very near future.  I will get back to you on how that goes.

And what happens to that quart of milk that gets pushed to the back of the fridge and forgotten?  A really awesome treat for the chickens.

A slurry of milk, chicken kibble, and oats

Yeah I know, the bowl is pretty gross looking, but the chickens care not.

 

A feeding frenzy, coop style

And now for some really cute goat pictures… by the way, please don’t be too hard on me about the quality of these pictures.  I do not know how to take good pictures for one thing, hence the blue glowing eyes, weird lighting, etc., I do not have that great of a camera, and most of all, these little animals just don’t take direction very well!

Chikorita and Daisy (still has the one horn thing going on)

Sunflower

Vinca

 

I also want to include a picture of Vinca here as a little doeling... Sunflower really looks like her!

Sunflower and Ivy, growing fast!