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Giant Eggs: How big was that hen?

Author – Nancy McCannon As chief egg procesor she is obviously most qualified.   You won’t see eggs like these in our cartons. As a hen gets to be 2 – 3 years old, the size of her eggs increases. But the trade-off is she may produce a few fewer eggs each week. So usually we […]

On the Farm This Week – May 6, 2024

Author – Katie Neal It’s been the loudest weekend of the year on the farm, but it’s starting to get a little quieter today. And no, it’s not my kids yelling about having to finish the last few weeks of school, not this time at least. This time, it’s all the mama ewes and young […]

Fall Garden not just for greens!

Author – Steve McCannon I really believe they thought I was crazy when I planted 30 hills of squash about August 10.  Conventional wisdom and old farmers wisdom said you could not possibly grow squash or any of your traditional summer crops at this time of the year: The heat would be too harsh, the […]

Why are they looking at me like that?

Author – Steve McCannon Each morning from September 15 – October 5, our flock of ewes was waiting for me at the gate like this. Why? In their minds, it was only because they were anticipating being moved to a paddock of super-lush, highly nutritious summer grazing. Shortly after noon, their bellies were full and […]

Curiosity versus Patience

Growing up as a farm kid, you had ample lessons in patience, any kid’s least favorite and least available virtue. Slowly though, the natural lessons of seasons and harvests, gestations and lambing grind away at youthful impatience to leave a grudging acceptance that good things have to be waited for (but that doesn’t mean we […]