Our Favorite Family Farm Books
I have wanted to write this post for so long! And I want you to know I have no affiliate links and make no money off of sharing these books.…
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Tractor Kids
On Thursday Ivar ran into the house from the barn, “Mom, the combine is in the field! Please let me wake up Alden!” Ivar had the toy combine in his…
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To market to market to kill a fat pig
Last night I went to bed utterly exhausted but at 1 am I woke up wide awake. I began to worry about loading the pigs up this morning to take to the butcher…
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Cody the Billy
We have a new arrival in the barn yard! We purchased Cody, a registered Nubian billy goat, to join our dairy goats. He’ll be our sire and help us grow…
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Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing for Sheep
Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing. That’s a mouthful. MIRG for short. MIRG is a system of pasturing animals to maximize pasture growth. Proponents call it farming grass. Rotational grazing is nothing new.…
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A farm needs a barn, part 2
Construction is complete! Today we had our final inspection and we are so pleased with how everything turned out and so grateful for a competent team of builders who were…
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