Category Archives: Farm
Pastured Pork
My wife created a blog just for offerings from our farm, U-Turn Family Farm. Today, she posted that we have pastured pork available. You can check it out here. We have pastured pork to offer for sale! The pigs will … Continue reading
Filed under Farm, Farming Pigs
December 2008 Already
December already. And it is COLD. I don’t remember it being this cold last year. Maybe I’m not dressing warmly enough. I have a few extra days off this month, so I will be trying to get some work done, … Continue reading
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35th Birthday
I hit the 1/3-of-the-way mark the other day. It is a bit hard for me to believe. Have I always heard adults saying the same thing their whole lives and never understood it? I don’t feel much different from when … Continue reading
Two New Members of the Family
Yesterday the newest members of our family arrived! As of now, they are unnamed, but we have a two-year-old cow and her first calf, a little bull calf. They arrived here on May 6, the calf having just been born … Continue reading
Filed under Farm, Farming Dairy
Life on the Farm
Life on the farm has been good these last few days. The daytime highs got up to close to 50 for several days in a row, so Gina, the kids, and I worked on shingling the west side of my … Continue reading
Filed under Chickens, Dreaming, Farm, Farming Poultry
Updates about nothing in particular
I really don’t have anything to write about tonight, but I have time on the computer, so I might as well write something. I am finishing up my training in the prison this week — next week I will be … Continue reading
Filed under Baby, Bible, Chickens, Farm, Farm Projects, Farming Poultry, Homebuilding, Work
Chicken relocation
As I mentioned earlier, we had been keeping our chickens in the basement of our house. They were quickly growing, starting to really stink, and creating a ton of dust for us. They were also getting quite crowded. So for … Continue reading
House for Sale
There is a house for sale down the street. It is a nice-looking place, with 5.89 acres and many outbuildings. The owner is asking $125,000. Following are some pictures. This picture shows the garage, which is an over-sized two-car just … Continue reading
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I’m a Farmer Now
I have been having a hard time telling folks around here that we own a farm, because they invariably ask what my crop is. So I had taken to telling folks that I am a farmer without a crop and … Continue reading
Filed under Chickens, Farm, Farm Projects
Whizbang Garden Cart
Finished! Caleb & I finished building our Whizbang Garden Cart and used it for the first time this morning. I decided to paint it with some left over exterior paint we had laying around. I had been, and may still … Continue reading
Filed under Farm, Farm Projects, Whizbang
