Update on the baby goat

Update on the baby goat

At the moment, he can get up on his own.  It was a struggle through the night to get food into him.  I also battled to keep him up on his feet.  Goats like other rudiments need to be able to stand to digest food, etc.   It is essential to get them up walking around as soon as possible; it can increase their chances of living by more than 40 percent. 

This guy has now developed a bit of loose stool, my fault on that I am afraid.  He ate two ounces straight down and seemed hungry still.  I have been feeding baby animals for years, so I know better than to get over zealous like that.  After cleaning him up and re-feeding him; I gave him a little bit of pectin.  I use the same type of pectin that is used in canning jam.  It will help to regulate his bowls a bit better.  This is a minor setback with all the progress that has occurred in the past 24 hours.   If he continues to progress and lives, I will buy his life back and keep him.  He is the first born male of his mother on our farm, and in our tradition the first born of even the animals belongs to G-d and must be redeemed the money than goes to the poor or widow, etc.  Normally the animal is given to a poor people in our community, but as I said, I have plans to redeem him.

Today has been a slow day otherwise.   

  

At the moment, he can get up on his own.  It was a struggle through the night to get food into him.  I also battled to keep him up on his feet.  Goats like other rudiments need to be able to stand to digest food, etc.   It is essential to get them up walking around as soon as possible; it can increase their chances of living by more than 40 percent. 

This guy has now developed a bit of loose stool, my fault on that I am afraid.  He ate two ounces straight down and seemed hungry still.  I have been feeding baby animals for years, so I know better than to get over zealous like that.  After cleaning him up and re-feeding him; I gave him a little bit of pectin.  I use the same type of pectin that is used in canning jam.  It will help to regulate his bowls a bit better.  This is a minor setback with all the progress that has occurred in the past 24 hours.   If he continues to progress and lives, I will buy his life back and keep him.  He is the first born male of his mother on our farm, and in our tradition the first born of even the animals belongs to G-d and must be redeemed the money than goes to the poor or widow, etc.  Normally the animal is given to a poor people in our community, but as I said, I have plans to redeem him.

Today has been a slow day otherwise.   

Be Blessed

Shekhinah Mom at Mahanaim Farm

Creating a future from the past, (once beyond organic, thanks Asplundh for spraying toxic chemicals on our land), done in love...

Had a baby goat born to a Nubian goat I bought a few months ago.  I am not sure the little guy is going to make it, he is extremely weak, and I could not even get him to stand.  I milked his mother for some colostrum; it was quite a struggle.  With the help of a bucket of food and my husband Michael, I was able to get 1 oz.  to feed him.  Try as I may I could get him to take no more than a few mouthfuls.  He is sleeping out with his mother right now.  It makes me sad to think we might lose such a cute baby. That is the sad part of life on a farm; it is always a battle of life and death. 

His mother seems lost on what is happening, she still has not passed the after birth, but I am keeping a close eye on them both.  I wish now I had sold her before the baby was born, but it is what it is.  I blessed him, and if he lives he will be given to a poor family. 

I will post any changes as they take place.

Be Blessed

Shekhinah mom of Mahanaim Farm

Creating the future from the past Once beyond organic (Thanks Asplundh), but always done in love.

Update on the farm...

I wanted to go on here and tell you all about the beautiful vegetables I am growing, our beans are coming in; our first zucchini is on the vine, and the tomatoes are plentiful and sweet.  However behind the scenes there is a dark cloud.  It is a cloud full of hate, and rage.  It is against the natural, and against the earth herself.  It is a crime perpetrated by a company whose whole purpose and nature is bent on the destruction of plants and wild life.  This company who has placed itself above the law may be coming to your yard soon.  The company who chemically raped my land and soon yours goes by the name Asplundh. I think you all should know this, and now that they believe that Organic growing is a waste of time.Here is a link to their page, please feel free to show them how you feel about Organic food and farms. The chemicals they spray kill bees as well, and are being banned in some states. One of the three products they sprayed on my property was used off label and can contaminate ground water forever. Forever is an exceedingly long time. I will get back to the facts that they feel like you have not right to your own property, and did not know the difference between an easement, and a right-of -way. I found the way the one young man threatened me with returning to finish the job, on my land with the police to be of interest. My property that I pay taxes on, that was organic, and you are going to use the police to continue to poison it...NOPE! I would encourage everyone to contact not only these people, but to call  or email NAEC, and ask them not to rehire these contractors who care so little for the land, and your rights. These guys tried to get my property by force asking me if I had said anything before now, I had. The point being after 8 years they can try, and take your property away, claiming that they have been "caring" for it; that you all but gave it to them. I think it is crucial not to let people like contractors and energy companies just take your property. It amounts to no less than ecological rape of one’s property. Http://www.asplundh.com/ In closing with so much of what they said, echoing in my head, I can honestly say that unless we start protecting ourselves as property owners there will be no land for our children, no hope of a better brighter tomorrow, only death and a barren landscape full on Monsanto super crops, full of toxic poisons.  I whole heartedly believe as an American in the most fundamental of the rights that our founding fathers have given us.   With these truths that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unaleable rights, among these are the life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  At this moment, I live in a world where these rights may or may not exist depending on which large company you anger or get in the way of.  We must stand up for our farms, for our lands, for our liberty most dear.
 Shekhinah Mom at Mahanaim Farm, Camp, ArkansasCreating a future from the past once organic farm, where all things are grown with love…

The contractors, their story and the press release that will follow

The continuation of the settlement offer...is that they told me things, I told them things; they expressed how they were going to do what they wanted; I told them no you’re not.  They tried to intimidate me into a settlement.  I explained to them that I understand the law.  I not only read it, I digested it.  Taking it into my being.  It is my land, not their property!  They tried to tell me that after 8 years, they could do what they wanted with my ground.   I said, well that will not help you, as in Nov of this past year I told your people to get off my property, and that we would maintain it from here on out.  You were notified.  It was not me who broke the rules; it was you!  You did not send a letter asking permission; you did not knock on my door.  What you did is called a chemical trespass, it is illegal.  The $2500. you offered me is disgusting, the act alone shows you lack of morals or proper judgment.  You offered me $6000, and I was offended then.  You think it is reasonable to give me less because a test you did a month later.  Never mind the tons of rain, and my fast acting husband having washed the toxin into the road. The analysis showed true in only one place.  You said; let us remove the soil, and the tree, sorry dude that does not return me to organic.  I must wait three years for that. I told them I will lose $15, 000. over the next three years.  He said, so you will take no less than $15, 000. I am open to negotiation.  It was then he offered me the $2500. 

I told them to leave, all hell broke loose.  They informed me how I could not use my tapes in court, and how expensive it would be to take them to court. I snapped...you do not know me, or what I own, even though I did notice you standing at my screen door looking in my house, you did not knock or make yourself know.   You told me again that you were good upstanding people.  You did this while saying I was not, slander...at the end, they told me that their insurance company would be in touch, but not without offending my G-d, my farm and my choice of how to live.  I do not live in a palace; I could if I wanted to.  I chose this farm, and this property!  I could choose to surround myself with lots of rich and famous friends.  I would rather the few dear ones that I love.  You think I am poor because I live in an old house and my pastures grow tall, I tell you I am rich!  I do not need a new car to prove my worth, nor is expensive house, my worth in my value to my fellow man.  It is the protection of my children, my livestock and my home, and the plants and soil that my value can be seen.  Do not let me thriftiness fool you into thinking, that I am without means.

Next no one gets to tell me what they are going to do on my land, and no one gets to talk down to me because I am a women.  When I tell you to leave you do not get to tell me how small I am; how I have nothing.  How much it would cost to fight you!  My G-d is the G-d of impossible; he took me from slavery to freedom.  He walked me through the desert of the world, feeding me, keeping shoes upon my feet, clothes upon my back.  I came to this land that he gave to me, and to my descendants.  It is you who have nothing, because you are nothing; you are small, and I denounce you.  You think I am dirt because I am a Jew, well this Jew will pray to her G-d, and for you, you will need all the help you can get.  Your mothers should wash your mouths out for talking to a lady like that.  I will make sure you do not do this to anyone else.  It is not man that gives me strength; your words are powerless to me, for it is G-d that strengthens me. 

I will declare to all of you who are reading this, stand up for yourselves, do not allow the world, and it’s evil ways beat you down.  Do not become like these people, uncaring, cruel and inhuman.  When your wealth is gone, what will you have left, will you still praise he who created you, or will you be like these men.  For when the time comes they will say G-d has left us. 

I know G-d stands where I stand. 

Shekhinah

Since today is the day the NEAC people from the power company are coming, I thought I would talk about easements and right of ways.  There are rules that protect land owners from people spraying their ground with toxic chemicals, or even cutting your trees or other plants down.  The link below will help to explain far better than I can.

http://www.realestatelawyers.com//resources/real-estate/land-use-and-zoning/property-easement.htm

Below this link is another type of easement, it is a highway easement...please read for details.

http://www.arkansashighways.com/right_of_way_division/ProceduresForAcquisition.pdf

Most people do not understand that the highway department owns that easement, or how they are remembered for it.  It is different than the electric company, gas company, or phone company easement, or right-of -way.

Below this is a link to a letter concerning railroad right-a -ways and easement, it is an interesting read.

http://ag.arkansas.gov/opinions/docs/93-406.html

Here is a list of codes concerning many of these easements and right-of-ways.

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/43/22


It is hard for me to understand how many good people are forced into making bad choices because no one knows the laws, that other wise could protect them.  I blame this on the lack of a good law library in my area.  Recently I asked our local judge where I could go to research these laws. I was instructed by his honor, that I would need to go on the internet.  I expressed my deep concern over this, and asked again, so there is no law library to help people to understand, or research the laws; he confessed there was, it was at the prison. All prisons are required to maintain a law library for the prisoners.  I was shocked that people who broke the law, and have been found guilty of doing so, had better access to the law than a common person trying to understand their own rights.

I will continue to learn, post and help others to understand their rights regarding their farms, animals, children, religious and home-schooling rights, as I learn them.  The truth is the power company must have your permission to kill or spray anything. It is up to you!

Be blessed
Shekhinah Mom at Mahanaim Farm