Frik and Frak are growing quickly. We brought them home at the end of April. We think they were maybe 2 weeks old at the time so they would be about 12 weeks old now. Frik is our friendlier goose and doesn’t mind being held. Frak, on the other hand, is a bit of a

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We fell immediately in love with our property when we first visited, particularly the older fir grove (thus the name “RavenGrove”). The woods weren’t overly dense in the spring and it was lush, green, and cool in the summer. Blackberry shrubs in one end provided habitat for the turkey’s, squirrels, and other birds. It was

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Bridge has been working with Stanley on Working Equitation (WE) for almost a year. WE is a discipline that combines some dressage technique with ease of handling obstacles that simulate what a working ranch/cattle horse/rider combination might encounter. She has quite a bit of fun and some frustrations as they both learn and get used

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Finding an area to ride horses is challenging. We have five acres but only about 2 acres are usable in that fashion. We can ride in the back-tree lot – but it’s hard for Bridgett to practice Dressage and Working Equitation obstacles routinely without hauling out to someone else’s arena. We have no funds for

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One of our slowest projects has been the barn renovation. When we moved in the barn was full of someone else’s junk (rather than our own junk) and only had two stalls that were configured for the last owner’s goats. We didn’t plan on horses at first, but once we had them it became clear

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Meet Frik and Frak, they are African Gray Geese. Bridgett has wanted geese, ducks, squirrels, whatever is cute and fluffy…. Lol. We haven’t seen any geese in the farm stores in the past. We got lucky (I think) and saw these at Wilco so I caved in and we bought these two. I’ll admit they

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Part of our major overhaul of the barn area for the horses is an improved barnyard area to park the horse trailer and a grooming area where we can wash the horses. We brought in some gravel that we intended to use in the paddock but decided to use it in other ways (we’ll get

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We’ve let our chicken’s free range over the property since we’ve had them. But we came to realize the damage that chickens can cause. Not only do they destroy flower beds with their scratching, but they also get chicken dung on decks, pathways, and everywhere you don’t want it. Also, consider the daily egg hunt

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