One often-overlooked aspect of alternative farming is the type of salt we use for our livestock. We buy Himalayan or sea salt for ourselves, but we never thought about giving it to our animals we just used the regular white salt block from the farm store for them.

 However, when we went to the Okie Homesteading Expo, there was a representative of the Redmond Salt Company there talking about why we shouldn't be using white salt for our animals. It totally made sense, so we ordered salt from their company and won't be going back to white salt! Read more

Snickers had twin girls today! Nigerian Goats | Long Creek Farm

We added three new nigerians to our herd this week, Snickers, Oatmeal, and Honey. They are all pregnant, but Honey won't be kidding for about 5 months. The other goats seem to be fine with them, sometimes we have trouble when we bring new goats home but they are getting along with these.