As if we didn’t have enough to do, an unseasonable blast of arctic weather has complicated matters here on the farm. We still have 50 broiler chickens on pasture that we had planned to begin processing this week. But we can’t run our chicken plucker when temperatures fall below freezing. On Friday we woke up […]
I should explain this photo. What you’re looking at is I the underside of our tractor. That fuzzy piece is grass wrapped around the drive shaft that powers our 60-inch mower deck. What I recently discovered trying to mow the tall grass in our pasture is that the tough stems from milk weed and goldenrod […]
Our daughter watched me mowing a paddock previously grazed by our sheep and asked if she could take a spin on the tractor. We thought, Why not? My wife and I both learned how to drive on a rider mower. We’re using the John Deere mower loaned to us by a neighbor. I showed daughter […]
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