Happy, Happy Birthday!

Summer is always filled with birthdays to celebrate. If you are looking for something new, memorable and fun too, Mulberry Lane Farm is where you want to celebrate your child's special day. You'll have use of the Hay Mow for your party, pony rides, hay ride and full tour of the farm. Take the hassle out of planning a party, we have it already done! Plus each of your guest will receive a FREE souvenir.

Mulberry Pie

Now you see it...


Now you don't...
On Saturday, July 18th we gave away FREE Mulberry Pie samples until supplies lasted. Needless to say, they didn't last long. Many asked for the recipe so thought I'd post it here for all to enjoy.

Pastry for 2 crust pie
4 c. fresh mulberries
1/4 c. water
1 c. sugar
3 tbsp. cornstarch
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tbsp. butter

Line 9 inch pie plate with pastry. Mix sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon. Mix lightly through mulberries, lemon juice and water. Pour berries into pastry lined pie plate. Dot with butter. Cover with top crust which has slits cut in it. Bake until crust is nicely browned and juice begins to bubble through slits in crust. Serve slightly warm, not hot. Temperature: 425 degree (hot oven). Time: bake 35 to 45 minutes. Serves 8.

Three Generations

Shivers (black & white) is a long time resident nanny-goat at Mulberry Lane Farm. Behind her is one of her kids from last year. Shiver's grand-kid is along side her born on June 24th.

Kitten Barn!

Watch video and turn up sound to hear about the new kitten barn.

No, you aren't seeing double!

Freckles (bull) and Speckles (heifer) are twin calves born on Monday, June 22nd. As cute as these two are you'd think they are perfectly normal. Unfortunately when mixed-sexed twin calves are born, the heifer is a "freemartin." This phenomenon causes infertility in the female and she will never be able to reproduce offspring.





Hillary stopped in the barn to check out the new arrivals. Hillary is a Shetland Sheepdog, often known as Sheltie. Many mistake her for a Miniature Collie. When you visit the farm Hillary and her sister Sara (not shown) will likely greet you before you even make it to the Granary. They LOVE people!

Northview students name bunnies.

When Farmer Barb toured Ms. Rabe's kindergarten class from Northview Elementary, Howards Grove, on May 22nd they asked her the names of our bunnies. Since they were still so young we hadn't gotten around to doing so. Therefore, Farmer Barb gave the students the big responsibility of naming them for us. Well, we received the notice via email today. They are named! Thank you Northview students!

Cutie - Buttercup - Fuzzball
Not pictured, Fluffy.
Did you ever try to get four bunnies to pose for a picture?!?!

Nesting Turkeys

Farmer Pat placed a hollow log in the turkey pen so our turkey hens (females) can lay their eggs in private. A hen will lay about 12-18 eggs and then sit on them. The gestation of the turkey egg is about 28 days.Yikes, we'll have a lot of poults (baby turkeys) running around soon.

See the minature turkey in the center of this picture? You're right, it's not a turkey, but don't tell her that. Last spring one of the guinea hens laid an egg in a turkey nest while the turkey hen was out eating. The turkey hen returned and hatched out this guinea with the rest of her poults (baby turkey). This winter we had both turkeys and guineas penned together but come spring when we left the guineas free range and penned the turkeys in their outdoor living quarters, she found her way back to the turkey pen and hasn't left since.

Quadruplets...oh my!

Half&Half had 4 kids! The old gal was awfully big so we knew she'd have twins or triplets but quads?!? 65% of all nanny goats will have twins with the remainder having single births or triplets. Quadruplets and quintuplets are rare.

Now that's a hand full!

Know what Grace has in her hand?

Milk of course! Farmer Bonnie helps Grace collect the milk from Elsie the farm's Holstein cow. Holsteins are the most popular cow in Wisconsin because they produce the most milk. Do I hear a Moooo.......?

Not to be out done by her big sister, Evelyn proudly holds one of the farms' full grown hens. Now I'd say that's a hand full.

Who can resist those cute little kittens.




Thank you to the Annual Pass holding family who shared these photos with us.

Early Morning Delivery

Farmer Pat was happy to see our mare, Blondie finally have her foal. This cute little filly (girl) was born about 5:00 am this morning, Thursday May 19th. Her mother (mare) is Blondie and her dad is Prince (stallion). Visit our March 30th posting titled "Thunder Storm" to see a picture of Prince. Unlike Storm who looks more like dad, you can see Princess looks more like her mom.






Perhaps we should have called her Long Legged Sally?!? Will her body ever catch up?










Princess was exhausted after having over 270 students visit her today on her "birth"-day. Both Blondie and Princess enjoyed the sun filled day.