Pumpkin Festival

This past Saturday was the Pumpkin Festival at the Downtown Richmond Farmer's Market! It was a fabulous time full of games, inflatables, pony rides, face painting, balloon art, clowning, and lots of yummy pumpkin treats and cool pumpkin crafts! (I also scored a recipe for some fabulous pumpkin soup, I see this in my immediate future as our forecast is cool and rainy!)

This will be our last market day for the year, as we are all but sold out (not a bad problem to have!)

It's bittersweet, as we enjoy the market and our market family, but are not overly upset at getting to sleep past o-dark thirty on Saturdays!

Who knows, now I may actually have time to update this blog regularly!

Kid's Fest

A few weeks ago we had Kid's Fest at the Downtown Richmond Farmer's Market! Even though it was chilly and cloudy, everyone had a blast!

I actually walked up and petted this horse. For those who don't know me, this is a big step.

Our booth! And my sweet husband :) 

Playing Catch Up

Sorry for the over long absence from the blog world - summer on a farm is crazy! Things have slowed down a good bit, so let's take some time and catch up on the past couple of wonderful, hectic months.

We brought home 13 new girls and experimented with free ranging ... which is not going so well as they keep escaping! 

Baby goats are growing right up, and getting friendlier and more gentle by the day.

And ornery and rotten, but hey ... they're pretty cute.  

The garden is dying back, but the pumpkins and cushaws have done fabulously - we picked all of them to save them from the creatures who were snacking on them, and are letting them finish ripening in the sun on a wagon. Seeing the wagon makes us so happy -we LOVE fall!

We have been enjoying our time at the Farmer's Market - it's a really great place full of awesome people who feel like a second family.

Life is good on the farm. We'll check back in soon!