It is now April, 2013 and we are still on the farm. The weather this year in Texas is quite amazingly cool and it has been pleasant actually working in the garden and being outside.

We sold the meat goats last year - had to because of the drought and were pretty happy about it, but then decided this year to start over with milk goats.  We bought two purebred Nubians from a woman who toured with her golf-playing, human-like dog named 'Burrito'.

"Swiss" and "Cheddar" are now in the buck pen that we had Recoil (the older meat goat, boer buck we had that had pinned me up against the wall at one point).

I was trying to figure out what we do at the farm - how it's different from our previous life simply in what we do and what we create these days when normally we would have bought stuff...

Here's the list and I might go and change it as I am menopausal and not really remembering everything all the time.

• Liquid soap for hands
• Hard hand soap (goat's milk)
• Deodorant
• Laundry Soap
• Dishwasher soap
• Dishwashing soap
• Dog biscuits
• Chicken stock
• Canned items such as sundried tomatoes, jalapenos, etc...
• Kahlua
• Naranjacello
• Limoncello
• Amaretto
• Grand Marnier
• Hydrosols
• beef jerky
• Dried herbs
• lip balm
• wine - prickly pear, ginger, grape, plum

grown things:

• Herbs
• tomatoes
• peppers
• all things garden
• Pomegranates
• pecans
• pears
• plums

processing;

• chickens
• pigs
• turkeys
• guineas 
• goats

 Off-the-land stuff;

• compost
• charcoal
• firewood
• barbecue wood - oak, hickory, mesquite (very little mesquite)
• prickly pear

 Made stuff (infrastructure):

•  gardens
• chicken tractor
• whizz-bang chicken plucker
• gambrel, killing station

More later.