The Beginning Farmer

The Journey of a Beginning Farmer :: As a child I spent most of my life in town living with my mom, but whenever I visited my Dad and his side of the family it was on the farm. From my earliest memories I have always wanted to be a farmer (except when I wanted to be a cowboy). Now, I am trying to fulfill that dream. This will be a journal of that journey :: my research, my joys, my frustrations, and all of the things that go along with the beginning farmer.

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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

TBF 008 :: 6 Steps to Farm Success, Farm News, and a Hard Lesson Learned

Have you ever wanted to raise your own livestock? Have you ever wanted to work for yourself? Have you ever wanted to become a marketing...

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

TBF 005 :: Making Major Farm Purchases, Rain is Coming, and What Not To Buy

Making major purchases on your farm is always a necessary part of beginning a farm and expanding your farm in the future. But, they are ...

Monday, April 08, 2013

The Little Satisfactions ...

Chick Brooder #2 I will be the first to admit that it is very easy for me to become the "Danny Downer" of farming. Sometimes i...

Friday, February 22, 2013

Growing Pains :: Part Four ...

Farm growth is a funny thing ... it both does and doesn't happen overnight. For a person like me, with the patience of a 3-year-old, t...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Growing Pains :: Part Three ...

I believe the best way to describe the first two years of growth at the farm would be to use words such as: Chaotic, Uncontrolled, Stupid,...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Growing Pains :: Part Two ...

A Few of our first Hereford Hogs on the farm back in 2009. Notice the fine structure I had built for them! For the past week I h...

Monday, February 04, 2013

Growing Pains :: Part One ...

You know the saying ... "Growing up is hard to do" ... That saying has always been a bit applicable to my life in general, but n...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Lessons From a Snowy Day ...

I'll soon be starting my fifth year on the farm, but "The Beginning Farmer" still describes me pretty well! Today's snow...

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

TBF 000 :: The Semi-Short Story of Crooked Gap Farm

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element This is the Real Very First Episode of The B...

Friday, December 07, 2012

The Tipping Point and Scaling Up

It is my experience that at some point in the life of a business or an organization things come to the tipping point ... the to the edge o...

Thursday, October 04, 2012

An Open Letter to Uncle Loren

Over the past four years, since the very beginning of the farm, we have been helped by countless family members and friends. They have spe...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Time For a New Boot

On September, 26th 2006 (wow ... almost exactly 6 years ago???) I wrote my second ever blog post . It is probably obvious from the post th...

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Limiting Factors ...

Sometimes when I think about the farm I think about what I've done and what could have been done differently. Or more specifically, how ...

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Little Things and a Thank You ...

Sometimes it's the little things on the farm that amaze me. Or more specifically the little things that have become routine parts of my ...

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Expansion ...

When I first had the farming dream I began the best way that I knew how ... by reading! And I tried to read as much as I could ... books, ma...

Thursday, September 09, 2010

What Can I Say?

Things will always change. Sometimes they will change because you want them to and sometimes they will change even if you don't want the...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Realities of this Beginning Farmer ...

In a perfect world things would go differently than the do in reality ... When I started this blog (a long time ago it seems) I was just beg...

Friday, March 05, 2010

Spring Thaw :: Many Projects

Since I have a tendency to become overwhelmed by the projects on my plate I thought it would be a good idea to get a jump on the planning an...

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Winter Shed

Sometime back (before the winter set in) I wrote about finishing the lean-to portion of our new shed and how it was going to be used for win...

Friday, January 08, 2010

This is What it Looks Like...

Winter is supposed to be the season where farmers slow down a little, catch up on things in the house, and prepare for the coming year. Well...

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