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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 25/09/2026

Equinox time of the year pictures. From the patio at the house, looking due east, sun is centered over the big live oak at the edge of the farm.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 11/09/2026

So not one of my usual 🌅 . Heard some thuds like car doors but knew nobody would be arriving, went out and 2 properties away a barn and car fire. I think every fire truck in the county came.

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SmallholdersUK @smallholdersuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's showtime, but not as we know it. My weekly post from the farm. debbiekingsley.substack.com/p/its-showti...

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It's showtime, but not as we know it

Okehampton Show 2026

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 11/08/2026

Golden orb spiders make huge webs. Tracy found this one in construction under a lamp post. Hopefully Bluesky doesn’t compress it too much. #SmallFarmLife

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 05/08/2026

Hello from our annual vacation in western NC. A huge Miata car gathering to go play on curvy mountain roads. A bear in Gatlinburg and lunch at Tapoco lodge near robbinsville. We don’t leave the animals much so a week away is big for us.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 14/07/2026

Stall cleanup after our rams broke their water hose and soaked their stall. About 15-20 loads of old bedding. We deep bed and after mucking put fresh bedding down, we had about 8” buildup to remove. Then barn lime it makes things smell better and helps drainage.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 11/07/2026

So while we were setting up a nice new pasture, the rams got bored and ‘rammy’. It’s nice to have the stall cams to figure out just how things played out. #SmallFarmLife

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 04/07/2026

The sheep demonstrate their remarkable reach when we are late for letting them out and they are HUNGRY!

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 03/07/2026

The herd loves Dog Fennel, a pasture nuisance for the cattle people, but high on the list of goodies for sheep. And it doubles as a scratching post.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 02/07/2026

A couple of weeks ago I posted about a Doe parking her fawn for the day at our pond. Saw here again this morning, the fawn is no longer tiny, but still pretty small and still has their spots.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 15/06/2026

I had great fun this morning watching a deer mom ‘park’ her few day old fawn in the deep grass near our cattle pond. Does will put their youngest in a meadow or somewhere safe while they go forage for the day. That safe place is pretty close to the house and we see moms putting fawns in daycare.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 15/06/2026

Weekend pics, Sunday evening sat in the pasture with the ladies. Had to explain not to eat my hair. Latte (Lottie), one of our smartest sheep, is giving what looks like an all hands meeting to the herd. They have loots of other room, but they all crowded into this stall #SkySheep #SmallFarmLife

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 05/06/2026

So settling into the day job, wearing my @kagi.com t-shirt to set the stage for a day of great search results and problem solving.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 25/05/2026

Our Memorial Day tradition, the rotary club since (1960?) In Arcadia FL, has a memorial for 24 RAF airman trainees that died in Florida airbases learning to fly for WWII. It was safer to train in FL than UK. They are buried here in a UK specific area.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 25/05/2026

Sister in law helping 1 year old ‘Honey’ shed her lamb winter coat. We are a member of #LivestockConservancy #ShaveEmToSaveEm where people purchase rare breed wool to support farmers who raise them. #BarbadosBlsckbelly ‘wool’ is hard to find, and it takes a lot of sheep for 4 ounces.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 12/05/2026

This is the before picture we let the herd loose on a lush section of grass. We have had a very bad drought, so this was a treat.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 05/05/2026

In the ram herd we had two yearling rams (smallest in the ram herd) involved in a fierce battle to see who was last in the pecking order. But the gates were open and the food they love awaited, but they could not turn to the barn, because that would expose them to a broadside blow. I broke it up

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 05/05/2026

Tracy giving end of day scratches to the #BarbadosBlackbellySheep some sheep love scratches some are more hands off.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 05/05/2026

I have a birthday coming up. My wife left me a present in front of the barn, 10 shiny new t-posts for whatever project I need them for. I’ve been stealing her tomato trellising t-posts recently, so having my own stash is great.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 01/05/2026

Today at the farm. Misty morning and Tracy has been making sourdough loaves all morning. Between the 3 hard freezes and the massive drought we are under, there is not a lot in the garden to bring. She pivoted to cut flowers and bread to bring to market.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 26/04/2026

Road Trip! We took 6 sheep ambassadors to #RemakeLearningDays a few week series of events to get kinds involved in learning and fun activities. We had sheep and the fleece to yarn story on display. There was also make a paper flower, plant a seed and take home in a pot. Facepainting, bounce house.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 19/04/2026

Well if I get it all together there might be some Zoom Zoom next week. So busy with the farm, I haven’t been to Sebring in 3 years

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 19/04/2026

Magic sunflower, well maybe not magic, but an interesting thing Tracy saw in the garden.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 10/04/2026

Helping yearling ewes Chloe and Pixel get some Spanish moss that they can't get to. #SkySheep #GulfCoastNativeSheep

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 28/03/2026

At our hometown historical days. Tracy showing spinning and the wool making process. Plants for sale.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 24/03/2026

We have a 9 year boy come help us with evening chores every now and then. He was here yesterday and after an hour and a half with him, this introvert was drained. Tracy said it was good practice for me. He's quite a talker, and afterwards I was like comfort food and TV please.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 13/03/2026

Lttle lambs from last year, encountering something new. #SkySheep #SmallFarmLife

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 12/03/2026

So was working through old photos and found this from 20 years ago. We were in Barbados and on an Island Tour. I think this was the north end of the island and saw these most unusual animals. I would have never though that we would now raise them.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 10/03/2026

From shearing day, we were pretty busy so just have some WebCam footage. This is Sebastian, one of our biggest and rowdiest rams. He gets to be first done in the morning, while the shearer is fresh.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 09/03/2026

Shearing day, NSFW naked ewe pictures.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 20/02/2026

Bruno, who we don’t talk about :), aiming for a snack on a misty morning. #SkySheep

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 15/02/2026

Rebecca in look at my mane mode. 3 weeks from her annual sheering. She grows the longest fleece of our herd and gets this Elizabethan ruff around her neck. . . #SkySheep #GulfCoastNativeSheep

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 08/02/2026

Pictures from the market today, normally we would be full of veggies and greens. Since the freezes we don’t have much from the garden, so we brought a collection of wool products.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 08/02/2026

A little morning dawn mist this morning. Have a good Sunday

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 07/02/2026

Good Morning, Happy Saturday. Stay warm and safe. Tracy dyed some wool brightly for a market on Sunday. 🕸️🧶

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 07/02/2026

Each night we let the small ram group back into their paddock in which we have filled their bowls with some supplemental grain. They are quite anxious to get to that. I opened the gate chain and the gate partially opened but the chain got caught. The rams figured out a solution. #SmallFarmLife

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 31/01/2026

🧶we are successfully warped and starting a scarf or three.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 28/01/2026

Help! We are in SW Florida and something is terribly wrong with our water. Some sort of hardening happened over night. We have an SOS call into our well company to have them come out and test our water. We have never seen anything like this. . . #SmallFarmLife

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 26/01/2026

Newish to us, Norwood loom getting warped for our 2nd time. 🧶

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 25/01/2026

I try to keep this farm feed politics free, but to all my non USA readers, what is going on is insane and we have some serious issues to deal with.

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Riven Oak Farm - Steve @rivenoakfarm.com · 24/01/2026

A very still and foggy start to the day.

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