I’ve been thinking about homesteading as far as it’s importance to a successful family farm. I look back and can go through my mind on who made it farming in my area from my age group and the importance of homesteading and the lifestyle that goes with it. There were a good share of [...]
Change is hard sometimes, more so after decades of doing it a certain way. After the better part of a lifetime farming conventional, getting away from industrial agriculture is not quite as easy as imagined.First the land, it’s mined out a long time ago. The only things making the plants grow are petroleum based products [...]
Saturday I was out raking and baling hay until after 6 in the evening. Everything went smoothly and that evening we got company from southern Minnesota, two couples and their little girls. Well naturally the menfolk have to inspect the farm, check out cattle and other projects. The ladies were out back inspecting the garden [...]
I don’t think there’s anyplace on earth where a person can think and come up with all sorts of ideas and dreams than out on a larger field doing a tillage or harvest job that requires little attention. Example, raking hay. It’s about as easy and as enjoyable as a job can get. And if [...]
Well, we’re well into making first crop hay as of today. Was in the mid seventies today, very comfortable compared with yesterday’s 98 degrees. Wow, was I hot on the old tractor cutting hay then. But it got me to thinking about how we worked years ago, same kind of days, stacking hay in the [...]
Hard to believe it’s been over a month since I was here. I guess I’m a great reader of blogs but not much into writing my own. So much has happened this past month or so since I’ve found so many great blogs promoting a Christian Agrarian lifestyle. Now I know I’m not alone in [...]