Building & Managing the Small Horse Farm

One benefit of being a compulsive spreadsheeter is that I can easily look back on past expenses and see how they compare to today's. The...

I'm lucky to have a large area for hay storage, but I've had issues with the bottom layer of hay turning a bit moldy even though I s...

Last fall I added a stonedust pad to the gate area of my "winter paddock." It was a very worthwhile investment that basically elim...

 Last year (2019-2020) I experimented with allowing my horses access to one of my three acres of pasture all winter. It seems a bit silly af...

When deciding whether to bring your horses home, cost is a major factor to consider. But in fact, asking the title question ("How much ...

Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2021 is less weird. 2020 sure was a good time to live on a farm! I've decided that I should insti...

I'll preface this post by saying that I am not a big supplement person because so many of them seem unlikely to result in anything but e...

A couple months ago, I decided I was fed up with shoveling stall waste into my compost bins only to shovel it back out again a short time la...

It has been almost exactly three years since I installed my O2 Compost aerated compost system so I have been thinking again about how it has...