A New England Homestead

Two Goose

Farm

A small breeding flock of geese and ducks lives here. Caroline, the gooseherd and duck keeper, lives here. And everything she writes about their adventures lives here.

The Geese

Sebastopols

Fluffy! Beautiful, entertaining, graceful in appearance, often clumsy in point of fact, and replete with attitude, the geese are the rulers of their domain.

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The Ducks

Welsh Harlequins

Energetic, strikingly pretty, and layers of yummy eggs. They elicit laughter often and keep the geese busy bossing them around.

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Do you keep Sebastopol geese? Or maybe you’ve just discovered this unusual breed?
This site is for you.

Interested in Welsh Harlequin ducks? This site is for you too.

I spent many years of my childhood keeping chickens, but geese were something different entirely. I had tons of questions (and still do). If this sounds familiar, stick around. Maybe this site can be a jumping-off point for you to find some answers.

Animal Husbandry: A Christian’s Perspective

by Caroline | May 10, 2022 | Homesteading, Musings, Sebastopol Geese, Welsh Harlequin Ducks | 0 Comments

Animal Husbandry is one of the very oldest of man's occupations, following close behind gardening/agriculture. And these days you can get an overload of information on how to care for your animals just by typing a few words into Google. In this post, I want to talk...

Grown Up in the Mountains

by Caroline | February 25, 2022 | Musings | 3 Comments

This post won’t tell you what to do when you vacation in the mountains, although there are plenty of options. It won’t really even tell you what is in the mountains. It will tell you what the mountains mean, at least to this one person who has grown up in the...

Backyard Ducks Vs. Backyard Geese: 5 Differences

by Caroline | December 28, 2021 | Sebastopol Geese, Welsh Harlequin Ducks | 1 Comment

The New Ducks of Two Goose Farm Backyard ducks vs. backyard geese – what’s the difference? They seem like first cousins, right? I’ve kept Sebastopol geese for over six years now. This summer, I brought home the ducks of my dreams – a trio of 4-month-old Welsh...

Letting Geese Hatch Their Own Eggs — Elena’s Story

by Caroline | October 9, 2020 | Homesteading, Sebastopol Geese | 0 Comments

4 years = 1 gosling. Not great results! But I learned along the way, and perhaps the recounting of my experiences will be helpful to you if you are thinking about letting your geese hatch their own eggs. Before I start in on the story and its morals, though, I feel I...

Is Sourdough Really Worthwhile, or is it “Unrewarding”?

by Caroline | May 16, 2020 | Homesteading | 1 Comment

“There are several variations on the methods used to make sourdoughs, most American versions being made in three stages….From making the starter to baking the bread takes about five days. I find the whole process rather unrewarding….”~ Elizabeth David I found this...

Bread & Butter: An Encouragement to Bake

by Caroline | May 9, 2020 | Homesteading | 3 Comments

“Bread, the best smell on earth,” says Mr. Brown in National Velvet1, and I think I would have to agree with him. (Well, except that chocolate smells pretty good too – how about chocolate bread!) There is something tantalizing and so homey and comfortable about the...

Feeding Sebastopols: What Do Geese Eat?

by Caroline | May 2, 2020 | Sebastopol Geese | 0 Comments

My feeding regimen for my geese has been evolving since the first two arrived as day-olds in the mail almost six years ago, and I’m still learning and experimenting! Probably the most important thing I have learned about feeding geese is that adjustments are necessary...

First Sebastopols: The Making of A Goose Girl

by Caroline | April 11, 2020 | Homesteading, Sebastopol Geese | 0 Comments

Two little yellow creatures. I saw them for the first time when I arrived at the post office that Wednesday morning. The Post Mistress pulled back the lid of their little cardboard box so I could see that they had traveled well. My sister drove home so I could cradle...

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