Our goats aren't precisely spoiled...they just like things a particular way. So, when I started giving them apple cores and a carrot in the morning, they informed me that the food choices were good but the presentation was way off. "Chop our roots!" Abigail demanded.

Luckily, Mark's mom had just found me a Pampered Chef Chopper at a yard sale. This is a fun little device that basically does the job of a food processor, but is hand powered. With carrots, you have to be careful not to overload the reservoir, but with that caveat aside, a few pounds of my palm reduced the root to a pile of splinters just the right size for Artemesia's little mouth.

I suspect there are better choppers out there for roots since the Pampered Chef Chopper feels a little flimsy with its all-plastic construction (except for the cutting blade). But it's definitely making my morning routine easier, so I'll try to be gentle and will hope it serves us a good long time. "I don't care how you do it," Abigail chimes in. "Just keep chopping my roots!"

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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