WHERE DID THE TIME GO?
August 27th, 2009 by gbw. 4 Comments.
My goodness, it is nearly September!
July only dried out a little bit and we didn’t really see true summertime weather until a couple of weeks ago. This has been the summer that wasn’t. The rain and damp helped fuel a plague of late blight that ruined many a farmer’s tomato crop and also affected potatoes. My tomatoes seem to have not produced much of anything more because of the constant cool temperatures rather than disease. I have to check the potatos to see what is going on underground. This may not have been the best year to do NOFA-NY potato trails~lol.
The farmers markets have been affected by the damp weather only occassionally which is a blessing. We have only had a handful of rainy weekend days. The fall season is always so much fun with pumpkins and gourds and the cooler weather with a hint of the end of the season making everyone appreciate the market so much more. Hopefully we will continue to have dry sunny weekend days 
We will begin breeding the does in a few weeks for February kidding but the three yearlings that never kidded may well kid in January since I left them with the bucks all summer. Morpheus and Neo are taking their job very seriously this year and have been fighting over whichever yearling doe is in season. I will need milk for winter markets so I need to experiment with staggered breedings to accommodate the demand for cheese year round. I’ll miss the two month hiatus from milking each winter though.
Well, I have a batch of washed curd goat milk cheese on my to do list so I better get to it.
Rowland on August 27th, 2009
… you should make some hard cheeses to age when you have lots of milk, then sell them in the winter when your not milking much…
… also, really huge favor, if you know ANYONE with border collie puppies to sell, or better to give away, please let me know.