Welcome to our little slice of heaven! I’m Nancy and it was my dream to get a bit of land and see what we could do with it. While mostly a Nebraska girl at heart, my husband and I had moved to California for a few years and were looking to move elsewhere. We have family throughout the middle of this great country and Texas seemed like it would be (and is) a great place.
We are working on a number of projects to get us to a level of self sustainability. Food forest, more traditional veggie garden, pasture restoration and eventually silvo pasture. We have already gotten started with chickens, But my big passion is dairy sheep.
We started with just two dairy ewes several years ago and have been slowly building our flock. Today our “keeper” flock consists of four ewes and two rams. Every spring we are inundated with lambs who are cute and lively and available for sale. One of these years I’ll keep one of the dairy ewe lambs back for keeping but for now, we place our wonderful lambs with good people.
We raise our sheep completely naturally. That means no synthetic, manmade dewormers, no antibiotics and no vaccines. The little feed we provide is organic. Our hay is not organic but is as good as we can get it. We keep our pasture clean and work on getting it to be an important part of the sheep’s diet and nutritional foundation. We think we are doing well. We’ve never lost a sheep to disease, we have never had a case of mastitis, our lambs have never had a case of scours. These sheep are super healthy and our ewes provide us wonderfully creamy, nutritious milk.
While I may talk in first person about my experiences, this is a family endeavor. We have a grown son who lives with us and another son back in Nebraska.
In particular, Hubby Bob is the photographer who supplies the great photos on the site. He co-shepherds with me and is in charge of pasture rotation planning and execution. This is important when you have limited land and he does a great job. He’s also built our chicken coop and run, put up
fencing, mows the land, whacks the weeds, and whatever needs doing.
Because he’s behind the camera, I rarely have a picture with Bob in it but will endeavor to add some as time goes on. (P.S. This picture of the two of us is several years old which explains the different hair length and color on me.)
Our goal is to transform this little plot of land into gardens, food forest and carbon rich pasture. It will be our ongoing journey and I hope you enjoy the journey with us.
