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A Teacher For Once
on Oct 31, 2009It's not often that I get to write a post about teaching a farmer skill to someone else. Most of the time I'm learning. And screwing up. And learning from my screw-ups.But looky here. I'm teaching my friend Andy how to kill,&n...
Finally! A Small Farm Advantage
on Oct 27, 2009"Rain, rain go away. Come again another day."It's been THE rainiest growing season I can ever recall. A wet spring made it difficult to plant the crops. A wet summer meant it was difficult to make hay. And a wet fall has the harvest at a complete...
Found and Lost
on Oct 2, 2009 in Longest Cattle Round-up Story Ever We found the cows: four white Charolais steers bedded down in a waterway in the middle of a farmer's beanfield. The same four white steers that farmer Tom's fieldhand has seen while mowing a waterway. The ones he had called Tom about, the ones Tom h...
Lost and Found
on Sep 20, 2009We were at the intersection of Campbell and Pecatonica roads, in the corner of our neighbors' beanfield, and had lost the trail. The cattle had run into the road, that much we knew, but to where? We drove down Campbell Road to a beautiful farmstead w...
The Escape
on Sep 18, 2009It was Saturday, and we had plans. Over scrambled eggs, the girls and I had decided I would take Ana (and Armando) shopping that afternoon after dropping Madelina off at a birthday party. It was a good plan, a win-win: I had the whole morning to get...
Rewind
on Sep 18, 2009It was Thurday, and Farmer Stewart received a phone call from Farmer Tom. Tom told Stewart that his hired hand was doing some mowing on the Palmer farm--a dairy farm that butts up to the back of Stewart's land--when he saw four white cows bedded dow...