With the weather warming it seems that everything on the farm is moving much too quickly for me with the exception of seed starting. Perhaps it is my age or maybe because I am a little apprehensive about farm vacations. The ground finally thawed and Alvin and his brother Joe began working on the road […]
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In the next year and a half we hope to be offering farm vacations. For the past 5 years, with the exception of the last 2 winters, Carl and I have been doing computer work during the winter and for a few hours each week during our growing season, which considerably supplemented our farming income. […]
We have been farming for 12 years and it still amazes me the amount of produce that can be grown from such a small amount of seeds. These seeds will provide 100 families with most of their veggies from mid May until the end of October. Each week, throughout our growing season, we are harvesting […]
I can’t count the number of times we have done things where we later ask ourselves, “What were we thinking???” Five years ago we had our neighbor, who saws wood for a living, pile slabs of wood in a field of ours in vegetable production but where we had a terrible time dealing with fescue […]
I went on a hike today after “predator proofing” the chicken coop and had a pleasant surprise of actually seeing bare ground as we have had snow on the ground for the past several weeks. I certainly hope that the snow melts because I would like to begin cutting wood stacked in a field we […]
I hope you don’t think I am complaining about the snow because it is beautiful and supposedly adds nitrogen to the soil, apparently sequestering it from the atmosphere, which helps in making our air cleaner and healthier. I am not sure if toxins are added to the soil when the snow melts, but our soil […]
For the last couple weeks we have been taking advantage of the cold and snowy weather staying indoors and nearly completing our seed planning for the 2011 growing season. Even though we have snow on the ground, the temperatures outside finally got above freezing, which allowed us to spend Thursday and Friday of last week […]
Happy Holiday Readers – This prayer is for you -sung by Terri Hendrix written by Buddie and Julie Miller! May your peace be anchor in stormy times May your hope run like a river that’ll never run dry May your burdens grow light, may your worries subside This is my prayer for you. May your […]
So I was only going to list the top 10 things but there are quite a few more tasks worthy of being included on our list. It is easier accomplishing things on a farm with a short “To Do” list rather than looking over the entire farm, with all the gazillion things that need to […]
Some might think I mean the cash crop, but after our most recent endeavor we have such an appreciation for what our forefathers have done in hot smoking meat creating incredible flavors. We just smoked a couple 20 lb hams, using a Sorghum Glaze, and the flavor is AMAZING! We now have on our “To Do” […]