November is here and with it comes bare trees, crunchy brown leaves coating everything, and shorter daylight hours. Even with the arrival of autumn weather, we are thankful that the sun has warmed the pastures enough this past month to get a little more growth from our grass. The cows’ Read more…
Well, we spoke too soon about the rain last month. After that shower, our pastures dried up again. We had a few rainy days the first weekend of this month, but now we won’t really have enough sunlight or warmth for the grass to grow. The cooler autumn weather is Read more…
Winning ribbons, attending cheese guild classes and grateful for rain showers. The September update from Clover Creek Cheese Cellar.
Our pastures have turned brown during the month of July. We’ve only had a few scattered showers all month except for the last weekend of July. The inch of rainfall should help the pastures grow a little again. We’ve still been feeding the cows stored dry hay. We need a Read more…
The cows and calves enjoy the grass and the sunshine, but we need more rain to keep the grass going. The cows move pretty quickly through the pastures now as the grass slows down. We’ve already filled up our two hay barns to have enough hay for the winter. We’ve Read more…
We finally had our last calf for the year on last Thursday afternoon, putting our milking herd at 73 for the summer. That is up about ten cows from last year so we may have to sell a few cows to make sure we don’t overflow the cheese vat. We Read more…
Spring started out slow for us this year, with only half as many calves born in March as last year. As slow as March seemed to be last month, April was our crazy busy month this spring. We just had our sixtieth calf born on Saturday so we only have Read more…
This was supposed to be our April 2014 newsletter, but we were too busy last spring to get this newsletter finished. If you want to find out why, read our December newsletter. We just decided, when we finally had time to sit down and catch up, that this story should be Read more…
Our goal for this year was to send out a newsletter each month of 2014. Since we sent the last one out in March, you can see how close we approached our goal. We have a good excuse though, as you will read in the rest of this newsletter. We’ve been changing walls, moving Read more…
It’s been a long cold winter at our farm and the cold weather seems to still want to stay. March is the busiest month of the year for us when we are dealing with many new baby calves, but this year it started out fairly slow. Our first calf wasn’t born Read more…