We’ve gotten together with a group of friends with the intention of creating a small, co-operative style farm. The main goal is to raise some of our own sustainable food, while spreading the costs and the burdens amongst all of us. Also, most of us live in areas that restrict livestock and bees, and on lot footprints that are too small for diverse gardens. Creating a bigger farming project allows all of us access to things like fresh eggs that we wouldn’t normally have.

Right now everything is very unofficial; we don’t have a solid framework, and although we have a name and a website, we don’t have a formal business set up. But we do have some land available for our use, and on that land we have a bunch of chickens, the outline for next year’s garden plot, a few bee hives, and two dairy goats – one of whom is producing milk.

The boy learned how to milk her today. It only took a couple of tries before he was getting full streams of milk. And Amber remained happy as could be whilst being milk – meaning that ZZ was doing good by her.

His comment? The teats were soft and squishy. Heh.