Gardening by Cathy

Now some of you are going to think I am plum off my rocker when I say that I have never heard of this place in Oregon, USA. Wildlife Safari in Winston Oregon, USA, not in Kenya, Africa. Perhaps it is because I am writing this from the Midwest, where we go [...]

If you think I am going to talk about sanguine memories, you are mistaken. No. I mean the orange fruited bittersweet vine, literally.
Growing up in southeastern Wisconsin in the forested area, there were pockets of bittersweet vines. Although I searched through the woods available to me, I only found a plant or two [...]

This same nice lady told me of her two goats. I said, do you milk them? She said they were two male goats. Not too easy to milk them, I said. She said, they keep down the blackberry bushes. Wow, I am now impressed.
I remember when I first moved down [...]

Dogs on the Farm Part 1 Click here
Dogs on the Farm Part 2 Click here
You know how they tell you to never feed stray animals. Well, the kind soul I was, I had to test the theory. One purebred Pyrenees and one half-breed showed up on our farm. I threw them some [...]

Dogs on the Farm Part 1 Click here
I went back to a friend of mine who had an Australian shepherd to find out why she said she would never get another one. Come to find out that she did like hers quite all right, but it was just too intelligent.
She told me that she [...]

Today, I talked with a lady who has a couple of acres and seemingly pairs of everything, from horses to goats to dogs to cats. One of the dogs is an Australian shepherd. I asked if this dog has the impulse to keep herding a flock in a pasture where they don’t need [...]