Missing Willow Farm

This needs to hurry up and mature!  Aren’t the leaves a pretty color?

It’s strawberry season, and our goats are very happy about that.  We shared a few of my mother’s day brunch berries with them.

Lizzie is happy to see me when I show up to feed or visit her.  Mama sheep is just wondering if I have any grain for her.

We’re just a few weeks from having garlic scapes, then a few more from harvesting heads.  We changed our starter garlic supplier for this season and have much healthier, happier plants than last year.   Two full raised beds full.  Yeah… we love garlic!

Lizzie is learning to watch over both sheep and chickens.  She’ll be a multi-species guardian.  🙂

We had a lamb born this year that’s developing horns.  That’s a first for us, it must be a recessive gene.   It’s too late to disbud/remove them.  We’ll have to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t grow into a bully.

We’re trying something new in one of our raised beds this year, watermelon from seed.  It should be a fun experiment!

Lizzie loves to bite everything.  We got her a few chew toys and are working to break her of this habbit.  Also working on ‘sit’, ‘lie down’, ‘come’ and walking on a lead.

This mom and her lamb are keeping our new guardian puppy Lizzie company in our small pasture.  They are not quite sure about the tiny fuzzy creature who wants to play with them.

Lizzie meets one of the animals she’ll be guarding.  Check out her happy, speedy tail!