Sage Flower Gardens

09/12/2024

Come to church this Sunday at Pierce Park Baptist at 5330 N Pierce Park Lane Boise. I am playing piano for worship service at 10:30.

01/11/2024

Dust bath time!

05/16/2023

Cheers to Goats!

10/08/2022

I am so incredibly touched! Two little girls bought some yarn from me to do some finger knitting. They went to watch the sheepdog trials, and came back and GAVE me their beautiful artwork!! I feel so honored!

10/07/2022

Hats, yarn, shawl all from mohair from my Angora goats. I am at the Sheepdog Trials now through Sunday. https://trailingofthesheep.org/sheepdogs/dogs/

10/06/2022

Pansy colorway. I was thinking of pansies when I was dying fiber for Trailing of the Sheep. I am a vendor at the Sheepdog Trials Friday through Sunday this week.

10/03/2022

I have been learning so much about No Dig and permaculture techniques for my yard. I currently enjoy the Charles Dowding No Dig and Morag Gamble permaculture YouTube videos the most. I have compared different techniques, with varying success. The common denominator of all the techniques is that I have been consistently improving my soil. The following pictures of giant sunflowers, cosmos, zucchini and pumpkins show how enthusiastically plants respond to richer soil. These are all volunteers, too!

10/03/2022

Years ago, I had a plan to raise drought-tolerant herbs and flowers on an acre of land, thinking it would be more sustainable than corn or other crops that need constant water and fertilizer inputs. Emmett is really a desert climate, with only about 12 inches of rain per year, so I wanted to raise crops in keeping with the climate. I named my farm business Sage Flower Gardens and marketed organic herbs and flowers at regional markets.

Well, about the same time I bought 5 young Angora goats, because I love goats and had the space for them. I could not do meat goats, because I couldn't raise friends to be sold for meat. Even in raising dairy goats, you need to get rid of the males to be economically feasible. Imagine my joy at discovering fiber goats! Both males and females produce equally valuable hair, and I don't have to sell them to profit off of them!

Very soon, the beautiful mohair fiber marketed better than the organic herbs and flowers, so mohair is the product of my small farm business. I enjoy the animal husbandry end of the business the very best. I enjoy working with the fibers--carding, spinning, crafting--but I love working with the animals the best.

07/07/2022

Bo doesn't care that there are black chickens in his yard.

05/16/2022

Kitty sleeping on new mohair shawl I am knitting

03/09/2022

It would be so nice to be a dog with no worries!

Bo is sleeping peacefully in the sun-warmed compost pile.