Every summer we receive questions from people wanting to know “what is eating my passion flower?”. While there are many things that can eat passion flowers, the quick answer is most likely fritillary caterpillars. Often passion flower plants will go from looking perfect to full of holes seemingly overnight. While the damage can seem alarming,…
Copper and Sheep. Is Copper Going To Kill My Sheep?
Copper and sheep. Is copper going to kill my sheep? The title says it all. There isn’t a more misunderstood, maligned nutrient in sheep. You’ve probably heard that copper is evil. Sheep can’t have any copper. If sheep have copper in their diet they will die. Unfortunately, while sheep can and do die of copper…
Our Favorite Long Blooming Plants
As per reader’s request, today’s article is a list of our favorite long blooming plants. There are certainly many uses and a place for short blooming plants in your garden. These short-lived blooms like lilies, peonies and iris are often the focal points and showy stars of the garden. However, it is the less showy…
How To Trim Sheep Hooves
Today we are going to show you how to trim sheep hooves. Depending on your soil and the activity level of your sheep, you will likely need to trim their hooves at some point. For some people it’s a 2x a year task, for some its more or less frequently than that, and for the…
My Passion Flower Isn’t Flowering. Why??
This is a very commonly asked question, and also a difficult one for us to answer. The reason it’s so difficult to answer is that everyone’s situation is different. Every single yard and even locations in the same yard are different. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to remotely determine what is going wrong. This…
How To Make Our Goose Egg Incubator
Our Tips To Help You Successfully Hatch Goose Eggs article is one of the most popular articles on our website. In that article we picture a homemade incubator/hatcher that we use. We are frequently asked how we made that goose egg incubator. So today, we are going to show you how we made our basic…
What Passion Flower is the Best??
One of the things we are most frequently asked is “what passion flower would be best?”. So today we are going to look at how to select an appropriate passion flower. “Best” is always going to be subjective to your specific wants and needs, but this is how to evaluate what we have vs what…
How To Help A Sheep With Bottle Jaw
If you own sheep or goats for any length of time, there is a good chance that you will encounter bottle jaw at some point. As a small ruminant owner, it is essential to know what it is, and what to do about it. Bottle jaw is a puffy accumulation of fluid below the chin…
How To Prune Stone Fruit Trees Like Peaches Or Cherries
A few weeks ago, we took a look at how to prune apple trees. Today we are going to look at how to prune stone fruit. Stone fruits are things like peaches, plums, and cherries. They grow differently than apples and require a completely different pruning strategy. Before we get started pruning a peach tree,…
How To Build A DIY Automatic Waterer
Are you sick of dragging hoses and carrying water? If you’re like us, the answer is a resounding YES! Have you have frequently wished you had automatic waterers? But also felt like upwards of $1k per waterer was unaffordable or unjustifiable? Particularly if you’re rotationally grazing and need waterers in many locations throughout your farm….