Graham Farms

12/06/2020

Got a chance to work in the apiary today! That doesn’t happen every day in December!

It was warm today with little wind what does that mean if your a bee keeper december? That’s right time for a hive inspection. Here is a video if you’d Like to come along with me.

In this video we are gonna take a look Into the bees and check the hives for honey, make sure isn’t anything wrong and that they have plenty of food and bee...

12/04/2020

Was able to get some of the girls onto new pasture today after they figured out how to cross the creek bridge I built for them. They were not fans some of them wouldn’t cross but I’m hoping after a day or two of crossing they figured out the grass really is greener on the other side!

11/27/2020

Here is a link to my latest video which is our first time using our Lakeland spin chute! This thing is going to make working goats much easier here on the farm.

Our new to us Lakeland spin chute is going to make working goats and trimming hooves so much faster and easier. No more bending over to trim hooves or wresti...

11/26/2020

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We have so much to be thankful for here at the farm! Thank you all for your business, friendships, and thank the lord for all the blessings we have had this year! May God bless this country 🇺🇸 and each and every one of you!

10/04/2020

So inspections last week shows the bees are building up nicely for the winter. They weren’t happy about being bothered. Hopefully weather permitting we will do some additional inspections tomorrow.

09/26/2020

From the apiary during hive inspections this afternoon. We seem to have a decent flow going right now as we are drawing lots of comb in the new hives and our first hives are filling up with honey. All of what they gather for the year will stay in the hives to help the bees make it till spring but hopefully we can start harvesting next year.

09/26/2020

The girls were out grazing this afternoon. Won’t be long and we will be putting fall pairings together

09/08/2020

Pasture rotation day! These girls headed through the gate like they were really getting away with something 15 minutes later they were all wanting back in the other pasture.

09/07/2020

We don’t talk much about our other critters outside the goats but watching the chickens out working today decided we would mention them. They play and integral part in pest management here on the farm and that is why we expanded our flock in 2020 and hope to do so again in spring 2021. During hatching season we run 2 flicks. The first is our New Hampshire Reds. The second is our Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. We hope to be offering chicks and hatching eggs from both in spring 2021. Our chickens currently provide many services here on the farm from tick management in the yard and pasture to fertilizer to helping clean up around the feed troughs which reduces flies and helping to reduce the lifecycle of the worm larvae in the goat pastures. They provide eggs for us they also share there eggs with the dogs that help protect the farm.

09/04/2020

The does the cows and the chickens are all out grazing this lovely afternoon

08/23/2020

The bucks made their way to new pastures yesterday afternoon. They also got pedicures before their transition as well as flamancha and body condition scoring. Only one in the group required a copper bolus.