Archive for the 'Nathan V' Category

A reason to have a diversified farm

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Last Saturday was a day with a lot of excitement and lessons learned. Saturday morning I started down the hill to go do chores at about 5:50 hoping to get and early start to the chores that day because I was supposed to rain later on in the day and I wanted to [...]

Milk Cow (I am Spoiled)

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I am very spoiled. Let me explain what I mean by that. When I moved out to the Salatins they didn’t have a milk cow, they had had a couple cows years ago but that had fallen by the wayside as they became busy . I started getting milk from a friend of [...]

Turkeys in virginia

Friday, January 12th, 2007

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 [...]

Hi from Virgina

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

I thought that I would introduce myself and let everyone know that I will be posting on occasion. My name is Nathan V (eldest son of Jim V) I’m 18 years old and currently working for the Salatin family on Polyface Inc. I started October of 2004 as a one year apprentice to the Salatins. [...]