Homesteader Life

God, Family, Cows
Those are the three most important things in my world. I love cows. Its a hard thing to explain to someone thats not a “cow man”. You just can’t explain the feeling you get when you see a realy great cow. The tingle, the rubbery legs, the feeling of awe. Jersey cows are […]

I’ve never met an employee yet that didn’t think his boss was an idiot. Nor have I ever met a man that was fired from his job that ever did anything wrong. We live in a culture where men are not required to take any responsibility, so they don’t. This is one reason I encourage […]

Lets face it, most people we talk to that hear the word “agrarian” snicker, roll their eyes and say something really stupid like “so, you think everybody has to live on a farm?” Our critics underestimate us and our ability to think. The common idea that industrialists have, is that there can be no legitimate […]

Ter-View Forever Eternal
Thanks to everyone that helped out in the “name that calf contest”. They were all great, and now I have “E” names for the next 10 years! Stephanie Seabrook, send me an email at trryscott3@aol.com with your address and we will send out some soap.

I’m enjoying a peacefull Sabbath evening on Hunger Hill. This morning everthing went well at the barn and I got home a little earlier than ussual to get ready for church. The boys gave me nice fathers day card that Leah made for them. I also am happy to announce that my gifts will be […]

A Shocking Experience
For the first time in a while, I got down milking at a reasonable time this evening. Last night the pump that tranfers the milk from the glass jar to the tank quit. The switch shorted out and a wire burned up. It took a while to get it figured out. We had […]

These are some good books I thought folks might enjoy reading. I have bought several of them over the years. They make great books for reading in the dead of winter next to a fire, but I suppose they would be just as enjoyable under a shade tree in the summer heat. I realy enjoyed […]

The less machines one owns the better. One thing about small scale, debt free farming is most of the time you farm with junk. Don’t get me wrong, I like my junk, I just hate fixing it. In this business one has to be a “jack of all trades, master of none” […]

There was an old George Jones song that I heard when I was a kid that has stuck with me over the years. It was about a man who dreamed of having “a place out in the country”. The whole song talks about him fighting the rat race and how unhappy he is. The one […]

Joel Salatin has a Blog. Thanks to Bryan for finding it!