Jun 28, 2010

Farm-Sitting

I guess farmers need vacations too.  And I guess I feel blessed that they should trust me to take care of their farms. ( one place only has dogs to care for)  I wonder, has anyone tried making a business out of farm sitting?  I can see that there's a need in my area.  I don't charge for helping out the neighbors (my closest friends are farmers ;o)  ), but if I went out looking for the work, I would charge.  This neighborhood that we moved into almost 4 years ago, has been so kind and welcoming to us.  I had a neighbor, whom I'd never met before, put up all of my hay for me last year, and never charged a thing.  God has taken us to a wonderful place.


Today I get to start taking care of a pair of emus.  Actually, the people that own them stocked their food and water all I'll have to do is check in on them when I take care of the rest of the critters.  Never done emus before.  Maybe I'll get the camera and get some pics of them.


Have a blessed day.


From Glory Farm

Jun 10, 2010

Violin Camp

My youngest two have had String Camp all week and ended today with a concert in the park.  My son has been in violin for three years now and my daughter for three months.


I'm going to see if I can upload a video of the high school orchestra that my son  plays in.  Here goes.


Didn't work, file's too big.


Oh well, here's a picture. 


Jun 9, 2010

Waving Wheat


Just a picture of our grain field.  The background is oats and the foreground is wheat.  I'm excited about the wheat, I've never grown it before.

What about Chuck?


Our hens go broody every spring and hatch out an abundance of little ones.  My daughter always ends up taking at least one of them in to mother for various reasons.  This year it was Chuck.  Chuck was over loved by a visiting child and couldn't walk for about three weeks.  After she recovered, we put her back with her mom who refused to have anything to do with her.  She was too young to be on her own, so we put her in the brooder with all of the ducklings and the mama duck.  They took to her like a duck to...well anyways..


Chuck thinks she's a duck.  We've caught her in the water bowl trying to swim with the ducklings.  Poor thing.  She still sleeps with the ducks, eats with the ducks and walks with the ducks all day long.  I haven't the heart to break it to her yet.

Rotational Grazing

It's up!  All of our high tensile wire and the dividing fences.  We are moving our beef cattle from paddock to paddock and hoping to extend our grazing season by a month.  We have eight paddocks and they graze them for about four days each.  We don't get back to a paddock for 24-36 days.  I still have a couple of water lines to bury and one more strand of electric to put up, a few gates, but the important parts are done.  My honey came home two weeks ago and put in the whole watering system!  He's awesome.


These are my son's cattle and he's the one in charge of feeding them, moving them and keeping records on them.  He took out a youth loan through the USDA and hopes to continue to build his herd.  He has three replacement heifers born this year and three steers to sell.  We'll see how he does making hay this year. ;o)


Jun 28, 2010

Farm-Sitting

I guess farmers need vacations too.  And I guess I feel blessed that they should trust me to take care of their farms. ( one place only has dogs to care for)  I wonder, has anyone tried making a business out of farm sitting?  I can see that there's a need in my area.  I don't charge for helping out the neighbors (my closest friends are farmers ;o)  ), but if I went out looking for the work, I would charge.  This neighborhood that we moved into almost 4 years ago, has been so kind and welcoming to us.  I had a neighbor, whom I'd never met before, put up all of my hay for me last year, and never charged a thing.  God has taken us to a wonderful place.


Today I get to start taking care of a pair of emus.  Actually, the people that own them stocked their food and water all I'll have to do is check in on them when I take care of the rest of the critters.  Never done emus before.  Maybe I'll get the camera and get some pics of them.


Have a blessed day.


From Glory Farm

Jun 10, 2010

Violin Camp

My youngest two have had String Camp all week and ended today with a concert in the park.  My son has been in violin for three years now and my daughter for three months.


I'm going to see if I can upload a video of the high school orchestra that my son  plays in.  Here goes.


Didn't work, file's too big.


Oh well, here's a picture. 


Jun 9, 2010

Waving Wheat


Just a picture of our grain field.  The background is oats and the foreground is wheat.  I'm excited about the wheat, I've never grown it before.

What about Chuck?


Our hens go broody every spring and hatch out an abundance of little ones.  My daughter always ends up taking at least one of them in to mother for various reasons.  This year it was Chuck.  Chuck was over loved by a visiting child and couldn't walk for about three weeks.  After she recovered, we put her back with her mom who refused to have anything to do with her.  She was too young to be on her own, so we put her in the brooder with all of the ducklings and the mama duck.  They took to her like a duck to...well anyways..


Chuck thinks she's a duck.  We've caught her in the water bowl trying to swim with the ducklings.  Poor thing.  She still sleeps with the ducks, eats with the ducks and walks with the ducks all day long.  I haven't the heart to break it to her yet.

Rotational Grazing

It's up!  All of our high tensile wire and the dividing fences.  We are moving our beef cattle from paddock to paddock and hoping to extend our grazing season by a month.  We have eight paddocks and they graze them for about four days each.  We don't get back to a paddock for 24-36 days.  I still have a couple of water lines to bury and one more strand of electric to put up, a few gates, but the important parts are done.  My honey came home two weeks ago and put in the whole watering system!  He's awesome.


These are my son's cattle and he's the one in charge of feeding them, moving them and keeping records on them.  He took out a youth loan through the USDA and hopes to continue to build his herd.  He has three replacement heifers born this year and three steers to sell.  We'll see how he does making hay this year. ;o)