We have recently become owners of a breeding pair of Black Turkeys. Our freind Larry, who hits a lot of “breeder sales”, came by with them the other day and wondered if we wanted them. The price was right and now we can work toward having a sustainable turkey flock. This is […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is a really good opportunity out there for homesteaders to make cheap beef. I’m talking about Jersey Beef. The only downside to milking Jeresy cows is that the bull calves have no resale value. If you have a bull calf born and send it to the market, you wind up getting […]
On October 18th 1991, Ahren Lea Imperial Elsie was born in Canada. She made her way to NY as a bred heifer and was purchased by my father and later given to me. Elsie was the matriarch of the Ter-Veiw herd, my pride and joy, and the finest cow I have ever had […]
You have probably noticed that I have not had much time to write on the old blog. There is a good reason, I have been spending an anormous amount of time reading to the boys. What little time we have left after being full time farmer/homesteaders has been spent exploring the wonderful book […]
We are kind of odd balls in the world of modern farming. People don’t know what to think of us, really. I suppose you would call us Homesteader/Farmers. Modern agriculture operates under the presupposition that you do only one thing and you do it big. While the majority of our income comes from our little […]
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