 Alvin in his dozer wile grading for our 4  new greenhouses         Alvin with Carl and Donna checking the level after a pass with his Dozer Alvin has some very funny phrases and this weeks phrase came out when we were discussing his new diesel truck. (The engine of his new […]
  Peeper Eggs! Can you find the Peeper?      More Peeper Eggs! We were working outdoors sanitizing flats and inserts when we began hearing the soft chirps of the peepers. They are the first sign of warming weather when they make their presence at the top of the pond. They sing such delightful music that […]
        Our Little Seedlings! We constantly have projects lined up and it seems that if we don’t have enough projects in the pipeline to last us a few years, we must think of more projects, just to keep us from thinking that we might someday have nothing to do but sit on the porch […]
Our farm, like most businesses, always has some emergency to deal with, but it seems this week we might have more than our share. We normally winterize our barn because we have running water to the top floor where we have a kitchen and bathroom for our farm help. We fully drain the pipes each […]
Spiffy’s baby #1 after disbudding Spiffy’s baby #2 after disbudding Disbudding is where one uses a really hot electric “disbudding iron†to burn around the kid goat’s horn bud. We put the baby goat in a box so that we can hold its head still during this process. We first shave around the horn buds […]
> We lost another chicken to a similar death as the first.  So we left the chickens in the coop for the day and actually trapped the predator! Is this the only possum or are there more hanging around the coop? We think that there may be more possums looking for a good chicken dinner. […]
Ginger’s Baby Girl Spiffy’s Boy #1 Spiffy’s Boy #2 Each year we reconsider whether we should be raising goats for milk. And then the babies are born, and they are ever so cute, so we keep doing this year after year. Just today, Ginger’s girl was trying to nurse on our guard dog, Harvey, and it was […]
It has been a long time since we have lost one of our layers to predators. As our neighbor says, “Everything loves chicken!â€.   We were losing around 30 chickens a year to bobcats, coyotes, coons, possums, and weasels. What makes us so stubborn that we don’t just buy eggs rather than trying to raise our own?    Every […]
We completed building an equipment barn Spring of 2004 and once the barn was completed, we thought; “Finally! We now have a “location†for everything including those little nuts and bolts, hoes and shovels, soil mix and irrigation partsâ€; however, that didn’t prove true. We had a barn for dry storage and equipment, but every […]