The Magic of the Land:

We have two creeks, one on each side of our rectangular piece of heaven; a pond, a douglas fir forest and an old growth forest, plus about 1.5 acres of open meadow. Scads of native plants including salmon berries, black berries - both native and not, many red huckleberries growing out of stumps that were logged in the thirties and reed canary grass...incidentally all very much relished by our goats. On occasion, I like to take the goats on a walk through the old growth part of the land. There is a nice path to walk on and plenty of yummy treats for them, sword, lady and deer fern, elderberry and oso berry, downed doug and hemlock branches for munching in winter with those ubiquitous salmon berries lining the path.