Herding Cows
Sunday, 7:00am “We’ve got a situation.” “What?!?” Chris had gone downstairs to get our Sunday morning cups of coffee; he returned empty handed. “The cows are sitting on the front lawn.” “WHAT?” “Yep! All except Read More …
Category: Animals
Growing Pains
For Chris and I, becoming first time farmers has been an experience not unlike becoming first time parents. Equal parts amazing, terrifying, startling, and fulfilling, farm life is both exactly what we expected and completely Read More …
Two Aberdeens and a Charolais
Over the past seven months, we have had the chance to learn many new things. Figuring out what all the light switches do, just how late can we can leave the kitchen without missing the Read More …
Candy-fed and finished?
A week or so ago, while reading a Facebook thread in a large, agricultural-focused group, Chris stumbled across a story about a rain and candy soaked highway in Wisconsin. Wet weather had soaked a cardboard box Read More …
The Farm’s First Deer
It took 34 years and 2,000 miles, but Christopher got his first deer. In our past life, had he wanted to, Chris could’ve gone deer hunting every year from mid-August through the end of October. Read More …