shadygrovefarm

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Bio

My family are German-Irish, 3d/4th generation, and altho they lived in Cleveland, Ohio at my birth (1948, middle child of 5), none of them has stayed in one place for even a full generation. My parents moved 7 times before my graduation from college (Mt St Joseph, Cincinnati, AB, Philosophy, 1969). After 6 more moves, in 1988 my husband at the time and I bought this farm, in southern Northern Kentucky. Farm? More like a Group Home for Overfed Goats & Underworked Horses. (Next move I make, I'm not gonna know anything about it). It's roughly 100 acres, 50 woods, 30 hayfield, 25 pasture, and about 2 acres tillable ground: enough for my trade, raising chemical-free herbs and vegetables. The horses (4) are mostly retired saddle animals, and the goats are 4 Boer (meat) and 1 British Alpine (dairy). Besides farming, right now I teach full-time, as a sub for our High School's French teacher who is on maternity leave. It has not left much time for the farm, and none for my free-time activities, hand spinning & -weaving, and teaching myself Navajo. The teaching assignment is over just before Christmas, when it will be time to catch up on cutting firewood. In January I alternate between ambitious starts at the garden program and crises like ice storms which keep the animals stalled up for weeks, requiring expensive feeding, hauling water and usually, breaking ice in water troughs. Look at my Blog page for more on the seasons, what they require and what they give.