Hoof and Hollar

Send us Fan Mail Ghost and Maddox break down the week at Bloom Farm and across Northeast NC. The June heat that has Picasso personally offended. Bandit going home with Kai and Huckleberry handling it badly. Two simultaneous cricket sagas (Merlin's "best  friend" + George "inventing discovery"). The new hay. A stick Maddox doesn't want to discuss. Seagulls with faction...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost and Maddox are back with the second weekly roundup from Bloom Farm. This week: a Georgian squirrel named Clem showed up on a man's shoulder with strong opinions about roof tiles and acorn storage. Bandit left with Kai and    the farm got too quiet. A rooster named Reggie allegedly fell off a chicken truck and Picasso is NOT handling the  competition well. Kim's tru...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost and Maddox break down the week at Bloom Farm and across Northeast North Carolina. Scam letters pretending to be from the court system. Political shakeups in Tyrrell, Washington, and Perquimans counties. That billion dollar Currituck Bridge that still makes no sense. Rick Myers giving Scout the spa treatment. The sheep getting sheared and Ghost not recognizing his own friends...

Send us Fan Mail For the first time ever, the Editor-in-Chief crosses the black path to visit the shed. Scout is here to talk about farrier Rick Myers and what he insists was a completely professional hoof trimming experience. He was NOT purring. He was breathing with intent. He was NOT asleep. His eyes were resting. And that thing with his tail? A standard equine reflex. Also, Maddox can't t...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost and Maddox dedicate an entire episode to their human. The hay that tasted like dust and broken promises. The forty-five minutes spent fixing a gate that wasn't broken. The feeding schedule that changes more often than socks. Featuring: Ghost's unblinking stare as a superpower, a shelter that didn't survive its first storm, and Merlin using the wreckage as a sc...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost and Maddox tell the origin story of Hoof and Hollar — how a twelve-pound dog with no impulse control stole Kim's phone off a fence post at full sprint, the chickens cracked the wifi password in under a minute, and a donkey looked at a blog and decided he could do better. Featuring: a phone balanced on a chicken, a Writers Guild meeting that was improved by being trample...

Send us Fan Mail Kim left the gate wide open for forty minutes and not a single animal moved. Ghost and Maddox bring in Merlin to discuss why. Featuring: Merlin's refusal to trade clover for pavement, Maddox watching a really good cloud, Picasso taking credit for guarding a gate he was nowhere near, and forty-four chickens screaming about a security breach that none of them walked through.   ...

Send us Fan Mail Maddox convinces Ghost to do something they've never done — say thank you. To the human who shows up at five thirty every morning before the sun and before Picasso. Who carried warm water in January. Who sat in the dirt for two hours so three scared sheep from South Carolina could decide it was safe. Who quietly put a mat where an old donkey likes to stand. Kim will never hea...

Send us Fan Mail Huckleberry has been scratching at the shed door for two days demanding his side of the gate story. He went through it. He conducted a sophisticated reconnaissance mission. He established a perimeter at the mailbox. He came back in under thirty seconds. Featuring: a sock investigation conducted with his mouth, Ghost being called a landmark, and the official reclassification of pho...

Send us Fan Mail Huckleberry tells the full story of how he got to Bloom Farm — how Kim flew to New Orleans for a quick grab, got told the dog couldn't fly back, rented a Dodge Ram Bighorn, and drove across the entire south. Pee breaks in four states. An airport shuttle bus. A car swap at RDU. And arriving at Bloom Farm in the middle of the night, where a twelve-pound dog stood still for the...