Farm Journal, Day…
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Farm Journal, Year 7, Day 94
How Are the Bees? During one of our regular check-ins with Tom’s Aunt Cindy, she paused mid-conversation, right in the middle of catching up on family and weather, and asked, “How are the bees?” It’s a question we hear a lot. Not just from Cindy. We hear it at the feed store, leaning against a…
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Farm Journal, Year 7, Day 1
Seven Years on the Ranch On September 10, 2018, we left behind a suburban cul-de-sac and took a leap of faith into 141 acres of pasture, timber, and possibility. We didn’t know all the lessons we were about to learn. We didn’t know how many fences we’d fix, how many calves we’d name, or how…
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Farm Journal. Year 6, Day 362
Things We’ve Fixed This Summer (and Things We Still Need To) This summer, we’ve poured concrete, patched pens, tightened fence lines, replaced mower blades, and rebuilt a busted gate. And yet—this morning at sunrise—we got a phone call: “Hey, do y’all have four yearling bulls with purple tags?” (Yes. Yes we do.) Apparently, our boys…
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Farm Journal. Year 6, Day 334
Meet Melody — the only registered calf we ever got from our first herd sire, Jukebox. She’s the daughter of our foundation female, Grayson, and a living link between where we started and where we’re headed. Thoughtful, maternal, and bred with purpose, Melody carries the heart of our herd in more ways than one.
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Farm Journal. Year 6, Day 326
“Let Me Check You for Ticks” — And Other Lies Country Music Told Me When we landed here, the kids were old enough to be curious, young enough to still need us for everything. We didn’t grow up on farms. We traded a mostly quiet cul-de-sac for all this land and had to learn how…
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