Walk Beside Me

  I am so damn excited right now!! Our two youngest sons are celiac and so am I so it made sense to switch the whole family over to gluten free. Its safer, healthier but as we all know...it's not always the most delicious. Breads and pasta just isn't the same without gluten...until now. Our son used to love ravioli and since being gluten free, has not been able to enjoy the goodness that is pasta. We have tried many GF pastas and I won't even eat them myself. ha! Part of the journey I am on is making everything homemade so naturally, pasta was on my list.    This pasta has the consistency and texture you'd expect from a classic pasta with the benefits of being gluten (and soy) free. It's delicious, versatile and fairly easy. I do not have a pasta roller or cutter so if you don't either...then add time consuming to the list. But, I promise you - it is totally worth every single minute of it. It gives me such a great sense of joy to see my children love something

   It's been busy here on the homestead! The chickens, ducks and goats are growing and doing well. Today, we clean the coops again and work on shearing the goats and adding a divider into the got shed to separate bottomless pits and feed bags. Our oldest goat, a yearling, is at a different farm being bred to a handsome buck. In September or October we will have our first kidding! We are all very excited! We have multiple seedlings in the garden and spring has finally decided to join us.    I wanted to give an update on our Daisy duck. Daisy was attacked by one (or more) of our chickens and had a pretty bad pecking injury on her wing and on her side. We used a combination of honey, lavender and frankincense EO and blue food coloring. It took some time to heal her injuries. We ended up applying the honey mixture five times. Sunny healed with one application of it. Her injuries were localized at her wing. Her flight feather was broken but Daisy had the more severe of the injuries. I