This is the height of the grass season, when milking and making cheese and yogurt and kefir and butter fill up my days. Every day I skim the yellow cream from four gallons of milk, and churn three-quarters of a gallon of cream into golden butter. Every day after milking, the cows, sleek with their…
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Farm Adventures
Summer versus winter butter. These are busy, busy days with Ethan gone. After 9 months of no income, he has at last found a job, but unfortunately it doesn’t just take him away from the farm, but out-of-state for many weeks. So it is just me and the children and the animals, busy…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 