Bobby

This is Bobby, the billy goat, in an old trailer which is his home. It's old but in pretty good shape.


This is the trailer after two weeks of Bobby. Pretty frequently we can hear him butting his head into it, and he's done it so much that the walls have come apart from the floor and half collapsed. It was going to be his winter home, but who knows if it will even last that long? He's pretty even tempered most of the time, (except when he's trying to steal the pigs' food) but he can be fucking crazy.

Update!

I have a job! They offered to give me paid work at the farm for the rest of the season, I'm so stoked. It's so great to have a cool place to stay AND be able to save up money. I'm not quite sure how long I'll be here but probably at least through September

Things are going pretty good here for the most part. I got to try milking the goats a couple times, which was a little weird, and a little difficult to get the hang of; I got a fair amount on myself instead of in the pail, but it was fun. I also got to work the Saturday farmer's market, which is the smaller of the two we do. It was a little awkward because people kept asking me questions that I didn't know the answer to, but it was pretty cool to be on the other side of the table.

Zach and Sam at the Littleton Farmer's Market

I made a friend! The pigs are really shy but one finally became brave enough to say hi

Meadowstone Farm

Monday night I took the bus to Littleton, NH to start my third farm of the summer. On the way there I passed with a sign that said "Real Food!" I'm not sure what it means that a diner has to advertise that it serves "real" food... (shitty picture I know, but it was from a bus)

Anyway, so so far it is pretty fuckin' awesome: this is what I was looking for when I signed up for WWOOF. They run a CSA and a farm stand, and go to farmer's markets on the weekends, which is cool cause I had wanted to get experience with a for-profit farm. They have chickens, 4 day old chicks, piglets, and goats, which are all incredibly adorable animals, I cannot get enough. The pigs zoom away every time you start to get close to them, but the goats are really friendly and come up to the fence and let you pet them. I managed to get a picture when they were distracted by food

!!!! There are probably 70 of them

The only downside is multiple roosters who start making noise at 4:30 am.
There is also a cute farm boy and everyone else seems pretty cool, so I'm excited. Last night after work I wondered around the farm with one of the workers, taking pictures and eating blue berries and raspberries. It's a good start to the month.