Category: Journal
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Life on a farm: Simplicity
After having travelled the world, stayed in luxury hotels, lived in some of the biggest cosmopolitan cities, worked as a corporate executive, life on the farm in a yurt was no longer foreign to me. I had become part of the farm and it part of me. My daily chores, life, interactions were very simple…
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Life on a farm: The Pied Piper
Weaning comes when the lambs are ready to be separated from their mamas. This means that they no longer get ant milk, eat grass/hay and live on a completely separate field. Its one of the other big milestones during lambing season. This is also time when the foster lambs get weaned off from bottle/bucket feeding…
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Life on a farm: Commune
This year was a special year for the farm. It had been 50 years since it had started as a farm. It was a commune before then. Hippies in their 20s who had degrees and stable jobs in the city decided to leave their lives and move to an island. There was 11 of them…
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Life on a farm: Endurance
Sheep have tremendous enduring power. To endure winter. To endure thunderstorms. To endure labor pains and give birth on their own with no help. And in no time, the lambs learn this power very quickly as well. They never stop to astound me. Similarly, each of us have different energy level. A person in their…
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Life on a farm: Bloody Introspections
Docking time is one of the busiest, messiest, most stressful and time consuming activities on the farm. This is when we go field by field separate 100s of mama sheeps from their lambs on each field. Then we dock the lambs’ tails using an expansion pliers. We insert an elastic ring on its head and…
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Life on a farm: Mercy Killing
The farm had sheeps in the 1000s. Over the years it has strived to maintain about 500. The newly born lambs either get sold to other interested farms or stay back in the farm to replace sheeps who retire or die of medical complications. But there is a number in the lambs inventory that goes…
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Life on a farm: Motherhood
The foster lambs had grown quite a bit in number. My mornings are filled with 20+ wiggly lambs all over me trying to suck on me, nibble on me, kiss me, trip me, loving me and making me laugh. I was getting the hang of feeding them one at a time unless ofcourse a rookie…
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Life on a farm: Circle of life
Today was a tough day. First sight for the day was a dead ram. He didn’t make it. Second sight was a lamb coming out of a sheep I saw its head and neck and ran to put my dog back in the yurt. I came back to see 1 dead lamb and another one…
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Life on a Farm: Intro
Today marks the first week of my farm living. Most people I know either grew up in a farm or do it as a weekend or month getaway. I decided to rent out leave my comfort zone, rent out my home, quit job searching and settling for an income and go to a remote farm…
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