The Future is Sheep
The Blackshirt Feeders cattle yard currently holds 50,000 head at full capacity, but when fully built out it will house four times that, which will make it the largest feedlot...
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The Future is Sheep
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Food Item: Turnips and Rutabagas
Turnips (Brassica rapa) and Rutabagas (Brassica napobrassica) are cousins of a sort - members of the brassica family. Rutabagas are the result of a cross between turnips and cabbage. The...
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Root Cellar Update
I have a lot riding on the root cellar's performance right now, and this week has been be a real test. Upstate New York landed a hefty dose of the...
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Ranger
So... I bought a boar. He's a sort of rangy looking fellow, hence the name, Ranger. His first day in the pasture he currently inhabits he ambled about the entire...
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Tape Gate
I built a 5 wire hi-tensile fence two grazing seasons ago. I made all but one of the gates out of electrified poly tape. I've held off on posting about...
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Cowbro Science
In response to my recent post soliciting reader questions, one that jumped out at me was about soil erosion and mineral depletion. Mineral depletion in particular is a topic of...
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Splitting Aid
Many parts of farming and homesteading are iterative processes. The concept-trial-improvement-trial-improvement- nature of many projects can be quite gratifying. It's freeing to know that if I don't get something right...
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Stairway to Heaven
One of my long-term frustrations with farming is the accumulation of various tools and parts and pieces of things. Not that I dislike having tools or left-over detritus from construction...
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New Ideas
It’s remarkable how quickly last year’s project has vanished from my mind. While I was in it I would think of my limited diet at least with every meal, and...
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Happy Birthday
Regular readers of the blog may have noticed the dearth of posts recently. Nothing bad has happened here... just life's busy-ness cramped my style. I turned 36 a few days...
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An Odor-Free Way to Make Money
I’ve been out hunting the past few days. As always, it is an ineffable blend of excitement, anticipation, apprehension and sadness coming singly and together as I sit in the...
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Planet Rutabaga
Last time I posted about corn I mentioned the huge rutabaga sitting on my porch. It's still there, lurking, a volley-ball size root waiting to trip some hurried passerby. I...
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What I'm (Bored of) Eating
The defining theme of this experiment, at least for me, has been boredom; sure, it was tinged with more than a bit of desperation when all I had to eat...
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Corn
I grew some corn this year. Judging solely by the number of varieties of sweet corn vs field corn on offer in seed magazines the American gardener is much, much...
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