Growing Food
Growing More Than One Crop Is Cheap Insurance
In June two years ago, a fifteen minute hailstorm crossed our valley and shredded every tomato plant we had.
Livestock and pasture writer, page 6 of 8
Mabel grew up on her family's cattle farm and now keeps a smaller flock of chickens and a handful of goats on her own few acres. She writes about livestock the way a neighbor would explain it over a fence, not the way a textbook does.
Growing Food
In June two years ago, a fifteen minute hailstorm crossed our valley and shredded every tomato plant we had.
Games
Raising a crop is only half of farming; the rest is getting it sold and turning a season's labour into a living.
Farm Income
Farm work is merciless on clothing. Mud, thorns, machinery, weather, and constant hard use destroy cheap clothes in weeks, and...
Raising Animals
I lost four birds in eleven days last October before I figured out what was happening, and the answer was not the fox I had...
Farm Income
A drought year forced a neighboring farm to ask the surrounding town for help getting a delayed hay shipment distributed to...
Farm Income
A neighbor with an unused back field called me last year asking if renting it to the local youth football league for practice...