Dread Pirate Farms

07/04/2025

Two boys for Peaches!

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01/04/2025

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02/03/2025

Up until now, the wrap that holds the feed bales together has been made out of plastic.

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02/10/2024

Leaves are a natural habitat for butterflies, salamanders, chipmunks, box turtles, toads, shrews, earthworms and others. They lay eggs in the leaves and feed on and under the leaf layer. By raking or blowing leaves, you disrupt their life cycle and eliminate beneficial insects.

-Data suggests that one square meter of leaf litter could house between 40,000 to 50,000 springtails, tiny arthropods that are easy to overlook but important to ecosystems. Trashing leaves takes away an important source of protection for these and other critters in the colder months.

-Leaf litter is also a destination for non-migrating birds like cardinals, who hop around feasting on the sheltering bugs below.

-Dead leaves play a major role in infusing soil with new nutrients. The invertebrates that come along to munch on the leaves start the process of breaking them down before microbes help finish the job.

27/04/2024

Oh, the things you can do with milk 😋

18/04/2024

Don’t worry, they’re okay!! Today was disbudding day on the babies - 10 in all. This is to prevent their horns from developing which is safer for the goat and the owners.

My vet puts them under anesthesia to lessen the stress on the poor babes while it’s done. They’re fine now, little milk mouths to prove it 😜 Thank you Dr Swink - you’re the best! Hoof and Horn Mobile Vet Services

19/02/2024

Be mindful this spring!

This is a honey bee. The pollen on her legs is from dandelions.Her tongue is sticking out due to what killed her that was on the dandelions. It's spring, dandelions are the bees first food. This bee is dead from w**d killer spread on what we see as w**ds, but what nature sees as food. Please don't spray for w**ds until vou see the blackberries blooming. In this area, w**ds, flowers and fruit trees are bees only source of food until midle of June. There are FAR more w**ds than flowers or fruit trees, so it's their only food source. No bees, no food crops for us and we all starve.

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