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Cassia Fresh Farm We raise and sell Registered Nigerian Dwarf goats. We also make goat milk soap that you can purchase from local shops in Lake County.

09/17/2026

Yesterday was a crazy day. The dogs and I went on our normal walk, but instead of only smelling deer, they smelled a hog. Two hours later, we finally got back home with some cut up dogs. But we were all alive and not too bad off.

I was hours late milking goats and feeding barn animals. By the time I got through with the adrenaline rushes and nerves from the morning, I was extra thankful for the blessing of my mostly peaceful barn. Even with a cat that still likes to bite.

09/07/2026

Now we are back at the house and I’m sitting on the back porch writing this…surrounded by happy, healthy, sleeping puppies and big dogs.

It’s time for me to go to the barn and milk the goats. Then I’ll come back for some hot mushroom “coffee” and time to sit and read my Bible.

I could get on a soapbox about how we should be living. But I won’t. Just know that you’ll feel better if you eat better, spend more time outside and have a relationship with God.

Fire cider using horseradish that my momma grew in Florida! It doesn’t look exactly like northern grown horseradish, but...
09/06/2026

Fire cider using horseradish that my momma grew in Florida! It doesn’t look exactly like northern grown horseradish, but it still has the kick! Of course, I canceled all of that out with the oranges we picked up…grown in South Africa. 🙄 Are we living backwards or what?!?!

09/05/2026

This is one of the things I love most about growing food. Being able to cook a good dinner without having to go to the grocery store. And then sharing it with friends that appreciate it.

The cucumbers I planted a few weeks ago just started producing. I still have onions from this spring hanging out on the back porch. The Seminole pumpkin cross squash (the thing I accidentally called a sweet potato) had been sitting on the staircase with a half dozen others since early summer. Pickled green beans, canned green beans and pickles are all from the shelf. The okra was what I picked this morning. (This has been the most versatile vegetable this summer. I’ll plant double next year.) The chicken was pulled out of the freezer from the batch we harvested in April.
And the rolls were made with hard white wheat that I ground fresh. Eggs were from the barn.

All that to say…if you do a little planning and start putting up what you grow, you can eat pretty good and not have to run to town for things. Sure, I still grocery shop, but it looks more like placing an Azure order every month for ingredients and hitting Key Foods or the Mexican store for a few veggies every week or two.

I saw a great video this morning where a lady was taking about the downward trend of the homesteading lifestyle. She had so many good points. But something she said really stood out. It was about moms of young kids trying to grow their own food. It’s just not realistic to think they can do it all. I feel bad because for years I’ve told them they can. But over and over I watch them get overwhelmed with it.

So maybe it’s something they can work towards when the kids are bigger. For now, maybe they should just keep taking care of their little ones and let those of us with empty nests take care of them a little. I think this is one reason that multi-generational homesteads make so much sense. (Hey boys, y’all can move back anytime ya know! 😉)

This was one of the best Friday nights I’ve had in a while. A good, wholesome evening with friends. My heart is happy. 🤎

09/01/2026

Stuck in the barn during a good thunderstorm…

The dogs and I walked to the barn to milk the goats yesterday afternoon, and it started spitting rain as we walked in. I milked and watched puppies play and explore the barn while it poured. We got over 2” of rain in about an hour.

Brian came looking for me when he got home, about the time I had just finished my last goat. Since it was still raining, we decided to rest on the hay for a bit.

That was probably the most unrestful but entertaining rest. Puppies biting and fighting, big dogs running up and down and falling off the hay stack. Oh the dust…poor Brian started sneezing, but stuck it out.

And the goat noise! I’m babysitting three goats for a friend and they are sure talkers! You can’t hear it in this part of the video, but the steers wanted hay and were hollering. Sometimes the barn is peaceful, sometimes it’s a circus! 🎪

Sometimes I rotate the cows, sometimes they rotate themselves. Not really, but it feels like that with hot wire sometime...
08/30/2026

Sometimes I rotate the cows, sometimes they rotate themselves. Not really, but it feels like that with hot wire sometimes. The stuff will keep you on your toes! Or not on your toes and the cows will let themselves out!

The problem with the big pond pasture is that the box is solar and doesn’t give a big zap. Unfortunately that has taught the calves to just walk through it. The more they do that, the looser the wire gets. Then there are the weeds and branches that grow and touch it. Being able to hot wire a space definitely gives us more space to graze, but it increases the work load.

Cows on the pond loop road are what the dogs and I found on our walk this morning. I had to coax the puppies through a gap in the cows so I didn’t have to get off in the bushes. Sunday mornings bring a whole extra set of challenges for me. Get the chores “done enough”, but try not to get dirty or ticky.

So I took the puppies back to the house for their breakfast, then hustled back down to move the cows to a real pasture. Then hustled back to the house for my quick clothing change, a brush through my hair and to grab a cup of coffee. Now we are off! I’ll milk goats when I get home. Milking in a hurry is never fun.

One of my favorite parts of raising a litter of pups is the walks and watching them learn and explore. The pups get penn...
08/29/2026

One of my favorite parts of raising a litter of pups is the walks and watching them learn and explore. The pups get penned up in the dog pens each night just after dark and when the sky starts to light up the next morning, around 6:30am, they are ready to get out and burn off some energy. We started taking short walks a couple of weeks ago…just down the driveway a bit and back. That’s a pretty big walk for a 5 week old puppy. Then last week we stretched it and went to the compost pile. Next we started making a loop through the woods and along the pond road and back to the house. The past two mornings we have walked over a mile before breakfast. They’ll be 8 weeks old this weekend and are already comfortable exploring the woods, climbing dirt and mulch piles, pushing their way through brush and just being tough little pups. Yesterday morning they got to meet the calves as we walked by. It was pretty cute when neither were real sure what to think of the other.

The girls were sitting atop the hay stack, really wishing and waiting for a rat hunt. I drug the ladder out to plug in t...
08/27/2026

The girls were sitting atop the hay stack, really wishing and waiting for a rat hunt.

I drug the ladder out to plug in the heat lamp for the brooder this morning and they got all excited thinking something fun was going to happen. Seven new baby chicks was quite a let down.

I wasn’t too happy with only 7…I started out with 25 eggs in the incubator. I hate to be a quitter but, I’m trying one more time and if I don’t get better than a 50% hatch rate, I’m done.

I think I have had a deer jumping in to the pig pen garden and snipping the tops off of the new okra plants. So we shut ...
08/27/2026

I think I have had a deer jumping in to the pig pen garden and snipping the tops off of the new okra plants. So we shut the gates and put some fed bags on a couple tall sticks. Hopefully that helps deter them. The dogs(all 15 of them 😆😬🙄) get penned up at night and don’t chase deer anyhow, so the deer are pretty cozy here. We saw three bucks across the pond tonight when we were on our evening walk. It was during a lull in a big rain we had and was still drizzly. The lighting was popping a few miles off and the temp had dropped to around 77F. Perfect evening walking weather! 🩵

The steers got separated last week. Little Muddy was weaned from his momma. He hollered so much for her that by the thir...
08/24/2026

The steers got separated last week. Little Muddy was weaned from his momma. He hollered so much for her that by the third day he sounded like a goat screaming. He finally quieted down and is content.

Black Bean Beef Burrito and Steak Burrito are being fed out to butcher in January. We are hoping the cold weather helps the cooler stay cold. Or maybe I need a bigger AC unit in it. Right now it’s on for gator season and it’s just hanging around 47F. (You can see the pics of the gators that Garret, Tashie and their friends are bringing in at Orange Cypress Outdoors.)

The grass is still growing like crazy now that the rains are here. I’ll start planning for cool weather forage crops here shortly. I’ve been amazed at how much better the pastures are doing now that I’m doing better at managing the grazing. If you have cows, you need to be rotational grazing. It can increase your yield and productivity. It takes some work to set it up, but it’s 100% worth it.

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Eustis, FL
32736

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