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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Showing posts with label Small Scale Farming. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Small Scale Farming. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

What Do You Want Them to Know?

I think that there are a lot of misconceptions about various jobs. In fact I can't count the number of middle school or high school stu...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Localvore ... is it a Good Thing?

(another late post ... but, there are only two more days of VBS!) I have to admit that I am a talk radio junky. Even as a high school stud...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

A Lofty Goal For a Farm

One of the readers over at the Epi-Log turned me on to an article/post from Grist.org (my first trip to the site). The post is by Tom Phi...

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

"Only 2 Percent..."

It seems like lately I have been coming across a lot of quotes that have really made me think about agriculture in America these days. The ...

Monday, May 05, 2008

In Case You Didn't See...

" 286,000 Pounds of Meat, Poultry Recalled by N.Y. Company " according to an Associated Press article that I read on FoxNews.com. ...

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Passive Income on the Farm

There was a short article in the March, 2008 issue of "The Stockman Grassfarmer" on passive income for the farm or the ranch. The...

Thursday, February 28, 2008

"Fatal Harvest"

**I am so sorry! I can't believe I did this, but I forgot to put up my post today. I wrote it last night, but didn't remember to g...

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Making Your Small Farm Profitable :: Chapter 5 Book Report

**Sorry about the late post today. I have been experiencing some problems with blogger and just realized that my post never made it up! Ho...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Making Your Small Farm Profitable :: Chapter 4 Book Report

Soil quality is one of the most important things for a small scale beginning grass farmer. If you doubt me, then check out the great commen...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Making Your Small Farm Profitable :: Chapter 3 Book Report

Chapter three of Ron Macher's book, "Making Your Small Farm Profitable" isn't a very long chapter, but it is chock full of...

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Making Your Small Farm Profitable :: Chapter 2 Book Report

Boy, I really have some catching up to do. I'm actually way past chapter two right now, but I think it was worth it to take a break fro...

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Making Your Small Farm Profitable :: Chapter 1 Book Report

Earlier I gave you a little preview of the first chapter in Ron Macher's book " Making Your Small Farm Profitable " on this p...

Friday, December 28, 2007

The Contrary Farmer :: Chapter 10 Book Report

"Winter Wheat, Spring Oats, Summer Clover, Fall Pasture" ... that is the title of the final chapter in Gene Logsdon's book, ...

Saturday, October 20, 2007

"Organic Transition" ... an article ...

Every once in a while I check out the articles and forums at NewFarm.org just to see what is going on. You may remember I posted a link to...

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Salatin vs. Avery Debate

**Bloggers Note: I write my blogs ahead of time now so I can post them first thing in the morning, but yesterday I posted a blog that was me...

Saturday, October 13, 2007

The Amish Neighbors

The rain today has me thinking about my dad's Amish neighbors. They planted five acres of alfalfa on our farm and it was cut on Wednesd...

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Quality Pasture :: Chapter 13 Book Report

I have to say, this chapter and the final chapter were probably my favorite of the entire book. The other chapters were full of interesting...

Monday, October 08, 2007

The Farm Crawl

Sorry for the late post today, my brother-in-law is home on leave from the Navy and we had a chance to come up and visit him today. But, I ...

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Quality Pasture :: Chapter 11 Book Report

Last night I finished reading the chapter titled, "Baby Calf Rearing On Pasture," from the book Quality Pasture by Allan Nation. ...

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