With this morning’s low temperature at -15 degrees F, it seems that winter has returned. Now maybe the snow that we received Sunday night will hang on for a while. The driveway to our farm is on a steep north facing hill, so now that the snow cover seems to be here in earnest, we [...]
“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position & calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, & no culture [...]
I have been busy running,or trying to run, the farm because the rest of the crew here at polyface has been gone for the holidays. Joel has been writing a new book so he has been at the desk 8 hrs a day writing and talking on the phone. He just finished the book on [...]
Well, I must say it’s quite an honor to be a guest blogger on Northern Farmer! Thanks Tom, you can pull the plug on me if I get out of line!! Since most of the readers of my old blog “Antithesis in Agriculture” were NF readers, it makes better sense to join up [...]
When I look at this blog, I see that Northern Farmer has made 265 posts. I have made a mere 16 (oops, now 17 including this one) posts, and already see the time that it can consume. I greatly appreciate his willingness to stick with this blog in spite of the crush of work [...]
Blogging, it does make me wonder sometimes what in the heck I’m even doing it for! It sure ain’t for the money because as anyone can see there ain’t no ads on this blog. And so far some super rich person hasn’t sent me a “love gift†of a few million. But [...]
Sunday evening and all is well. What a day, a good day, went to church of course and ended staying there a long time after it was all over with. That’s the way I like it too. No rush to get home or anything like that! So much going on, so much to [...]
Boy, it’s been a few days since I’ve done anything on this old clunk of a computer, but that’s ok with me. But it’s time to get back on here. Today was another far above average day weatherwise and we ran over one hundred cows and bulls through the chute this morning, [...]
This month it has been 2 years since a neighboring sheep farm experienced a barn fire. On my way to work today, I started thinking about all the things that happened before and after the fire. Since three of my children worked at this farm at the time of the fire, my entire family saw [...]
The latest issue of Acres USA has a report that I thought I would pass on. Apparently over the last 6 years genetically modified microbes have been released into millions of acres of cropland. The article says that neither the people selling nor those using preparations with the microbes are necessarily aware that the microbes [...]