A Time to Celebrate - its Fall Festival Season!
And it kicks off with Raw Milk and Cookies weekend
Well, hello again friend. I’m awful pleased that you are meeting me here this fine, fall morning! Your time is precious - it’s something you alone can give and can never retrieve - thus I’m honored week after week that you spend a little of it with me.
In these wee small hours, as this email is reaching your inbox that you’ve so graciously allowed me to visit, my family and I are scurrying out the door to a truck laden with pop-up tents, folding tables, ice chests, and a cook stove. Sounds like a camping trip is underway, doesn’t it? But the only “camping out” we’ll be doing this weekend will be in the farmyard at Duivenvoorden Farms, our dear, dairy farmer friends.
Every October they host a bustling autumn festival, Raw Milk and Cookies Day, on their farm. It has heaved each year into a greater and greater event, to the point where two days are needed to accommodate all who would patronize the celebration. Our local community is championed via an open door to vendors, of which we have been, and are again this year.
Our space will house both our farm (Brush Arbor Farmstead), as well as Habit of Husbandry. Tim & the kids will be taking reservations for BAF Thanksgiving Turkeys, cookin’ up pork & lamb tastings, and Clara Jane will be peddling her chickens’ eggs. And I’ll be donning my best extrovert hat and getting the word out about HoH - hope you’ll come hang out!
Looking forward to seeing you local friends there. If you’ve never attended, you must. It’s a picture of community most never see in their lifetime.
In celebration of this big, big weekend, we’ve got some special stuff for ya’!
Two things:
First, from now through Monday (October 3rd), any new paid subscribers will receive 20% off a year’s subscription. That’s $5.13 per month that goes directly toward delivering HoH content week after week, working to help you & other small farmers, rural stalwarts, and backyard homesteaders thrive - building a reservoir of know-how to draw from as self-sufficiency grows ever more essential.
Second, I made a handy dandy little chart for you. We went into detail about the Visual Examination a few days ago (if you missed it, find it here), and now we’ll begin to focus down to the individual physical examination, starting with temperature, pulse (heart rate), and respiratory rate - T.P.R. This table is a quick reference for normal TPR ranges of the 9 most common homestead creatures. You can print it out & stick it on the fridge, nail it to the barn wall, use it however suits you best.
Next week, we’ll follow up with the best methods for obtaining these vitals, and what information they provide you when performing a physical examination.
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