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Thank Heaven for Little Goat Girls!

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4 Jun 2009 at 10:01 am
By Gemma-Jayne Hudgell

Doe and her two new babiesDoe and her two new babies

It takes a special kind of person to keep goats.

Goats are cute, friendly, and an enormous amount of fun. However, they are also destructive, moody, and (in)famously insatiable. Our friend George has not always been an avid capriphile (goat lover). It was my own husband who did the terrible deed of introducing George to these wonderfully sociable four-legged fiends.

The Good Life on 130 Acres in Backwoods Maine

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13 Mar 2009 at 06:07 am
By Gemma-Jayne Hudgell

Pretty Cow on the Hill at the Anton's FarmPretty Cow on the Hill at the Anton’s Farm

I live with my husband and two sons on 130 acres set in the central Maine backwoods. We have a horse, a few dairy cows, a pig, dogs, cats, and chickens coming out of our ears. There are geese, rabbits, a mouse and sometimes goats. Oxen to be trained. Cheese to be made. A huge garden to be planted; produce to can and freeze. Haying to be done. Oats to be sown. Eggs to be collected. Strawberries and raspberries to be weeded. Blueberries to be pruned. Butter to be churned. Maple trees to be tapped. Wood to be cut. Buildings to be built. And our house? Suspicious electricity, minimal drainage system, cold running water (and the cold was only fixed this year!) We take outdoor showers and swim in the pond with the goldfish and frogs. We live through our land and our land lives through us!