When The Floods Disrupt

Imagine a historic level of precipitation in a short period of time. An extraordinary combination that causes flooding so extreme that property is destroyed, animals are killed, even people lose their lives. For many American’s this isn’t that hard to imagine. It was reality just last year. In fact, almost exactly a year ago, states…

Bloom Where You Are Planted

I had planned to ring in the new year with a post of my own in lieu of an article for the First Day Farm Female series. Any here it is approaching the end of January and I’m just now getting to it. Someone recently told me something they intended to do and added, “now…

Making The Tough Decisions

Last Saturday I traveled to a family Thanksgiving gathering with our four little turkeys. Brett didn't go along. It was a perfect day for harvesting, and those have been hard to come by the past few weeks. And it's getting to be a critical time in the season. Harvest has been delayed due to frequent…

Farmers In The Same Boat

With way above average rainfall and below average temperatures keeping us from planting our crops, it’s definitely been a frustrating spring to be a farmer. But nothing puts the icing on the cake like waking up to find several inches of water in your basement. I hope that means that day will only go up…

Right This Very Minute

You may remember last fall during harvest I posted a few videos sharing what we were doing “right this very minute” on the farm and I just posted another one over the weekend. I made those as part of an American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture campaign showing that every minute of every day, someone,…