Goat Pasture Expansion - Project Complete

This video shows completion of our expansion of goat pasture.  Our 22 goats have ample space to browse in the summer - and we won't have to give them hay regularly or bring them into their pens.

Goats get bored with one kind of forage ie. grass - so their pasture ideally has lots of trees, brush, and a variety of grasses.

Here is a tree for shade and eating:

Thanks to Gene we have lots of great facilities for our farm animals!!!!

Restoration: Fence

taking a fence apart piece by piece - restoring the section with new wood - painting it - securing the posts - is time consuming.  The result is quite nice!!!

Here is a birdhouse made from an old wine box - perched up on this historic barn!

Cold Frame for Seed Starting

This cold frame was built out of old windows and scrap lumber.  There is foam on the bottom with a heated mat.  The heated mat is made for dogs - left over from the litter of puppies we had over a decade ago.  It still works!

The cold frame works great and the heated mat really helps with cucumber plant starting!

Keeping Company with Goats

Gene repairs back of dairy barn with goats Further and Sorrelina looking on...

A little Help From My Friends!

Securing the barn with a lift from our cousin - Tommy - shown here operating the telehandler and giving Gene a lift - less snow, and pigeons will get in the barn now - to prevent damage to hay stored for the winter.

Woodshop Tool Room

to make space in the woodshop - Gene built a room further into the barn to house all of his tools.  The walls are lined with wood which he plained from lumber salveged from recent storms in the NYS area.

Gene, shown here with his winter beard, is resourceful.  His work speaks for itself.

Cat Condo's

Newly built cat condo's stuffed with hay keep our cats warm in winter! They also come into our house and lay near the woodstove.  But many cats are opting to stay outdoors with their own room!