I always wonder why some parents want to buy a young, untrained pony for their child. I was reminded of this lapse of good judgment when I saw this...
Want to buy a cow? It could live in your backyard and eat the grass. Then you could feed it expensive fermented hay all winter. It could supply all...
Fat cows make a farmer happy; most of the time. A cow with a layer of insulating fat will stay warmer in winter than her thin sister. So I don’t...
A business of any size needs good middle-managers, and here at Miles Smith Farm, we have a donkey who has promoted herself to “petting-zoo...
A longtime bohemian standard during the 1970s, hanging houseplants have returned in a big way as demand for plants has skyrocketed in the pandemic...
Hershey is a chocolate-colored Scottish Highlander who was born in April. He and three other calves are being weaned. These babies spent the summer...
Last week, two more calves were born – late in the year for Miles Smith Farm. We like our calves born in April or May, so how did we end up with...
Sparkle-the-Pig came trotting into the barnyard at about 1 p.m. Sparkle and her grandmother, Charlotte, share a pasture about 800 feet down the...