Life Among the Alpacas
Kasey Butcher SantanaNotes from my life caring for a small alpaca farm, plus the chickens, bees, elderly dog, and humans who live here and the things that make us curious.
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Be a Tree
As I write this, a crew is trimming our trees. It’s all chainsaws and curious alpacas and branches everywhere. I’m watching one of the guys out on a limb and wondering if this is a top career choice for kids who like to climb trees.
My hu...
Hay, Girl, Climate is a Cost of Living Issue
I’m already bracing for this summer’s hay prices.
Alpacas eat relatively little compared to other livestock. We feed them second-cut orchard grass, optimizing for the protein they need to grow fleece. A cow or a horse might eat a bale of...
Meet the Kindergarten Flock
We have a full brooder again!
Way back, before the alpacas and the original flock, when we were cleaning out the mess behind the barn, there was this big wooden box full of old paper wasp nests. We probably saw it 100 times during the bar...
Looking for Cycles and Seasons, In the Garden and the Museum
The patio is covered with bags of soil and mulch. Already, it is almost time to plant the garden. A few weeks ago, I covered some beds in dry leaves and fresh topsoil, and my daughter and I sowed crooked lines of leafy greens. I marveled at...
A Mother Patch and Baby Chicks for Earth Day
Happy Earth Day!
In the context of how marketing firms use every special day on the calendar, from high holidays to National Ice Cream Day, to sell things, it can be easy to forget that Earth Day was not invented to sell you allegedly envi...
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Writer. Plant lady. Jail librarian turned alpaca farmer. Ph.D. in American literature with an elderly canine sidekick. I write about our animals, nature, empathy, mothering, and what makes me curious.
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