Archive for July, 2006

Broiler Profits, The Fair and Other Stuff

Friday, July 28th, 2006

As always, things are busy. We are done prossesing the first batch of broilers and have been getting them out of the freezer and off to their new owners. The fair is this week as well. We didn’t take any cows this year, just some canned goods and produce. I am, […]

Growing Up Agrarian

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

This past year has been a rough one. Many times I’ve wondered to myself, “why one earth I’m I doing this”. Trying to live a biblical agrarian life in a pagan economic system is trying, to say the least. Sometimes it seems that no matter how hard you work, no matter how […]

Choosing a Dairy Cow….part 2

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Things have been busy again, so I didn’t get back to this as soon as I had hoped. Today we had a wonderful visit from Mark, Gwen, and Charlie. Its always nice to meet people you know on the web, “in the flesh”. Charlie had so much fun I had to hose off […]

Choosing a Dairy Cow…..Part One

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Greeting Folks
There are always a lot of questions coming this way about what kind of cow one should get for the homestead. I should state, right off the bat, that not every homestead needs a cow. Many a small landholdings would fare very well with a few dairy goats. We won’t get […]

Monday Notes

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Dave sent me some digital photos of the church, its worse than the last time, but not as bad as it could have been. From the photos, it looks like the foundation on one side was washed away but its still sitting in the right spot. Again, I have not seen it “in […]