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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Monday, November 05, 2007

Ultra High Stock Density Grazing

Check out this POST from a couple days ago on the Homesteading Today site. It relates to the Small Farm conference in Columbia, Mo. I ha...

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Tree Crops ... Pigs ... and Tons of Links!

First of all, consider this a bonus post! I'm going to be out of town at a youth event on Saturday so I decided to make a bonus post to...

Friday, November 02, 2007

Cross Fencing and Pasture Management

I read an article last night in the Stockman Grass Farmer magazine from their "Develop Your Grazing Skills" column titled, "M...

Thursday, November 01, 2007

More Thoughts on a Business Plan...

Yesterday I posted a portion of an article about creating a business plan. That information comes from Penny Huber who leads a class called...

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

A Business Plan?

Do you ever feel like you are out of your league. I'm a high school soccer coach at a school that doesn't place a lot of emphasis o...

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

King Corn?

Okay, this may be bordering on propaganda... but I just thought I would throw it out there for anyone's thoughts and responses. As I wa...

Monday, October 29, 2007

Done on the Farm...

Well, on Saturday I was able to head down to the farm for a few hours. Really, it was just a time to unwind after a busy week and before a ...

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Today is the Work Day

You know how I went to the farm last week? Well, nothing that needed to be done was done last week ... and the things that were needed to b...

Friday, October 26, 2007

Tender Grassfed Beef

Sorry for the late posts this week. Normally I like to be able to put up my post first thing in the morning, but the next few weeks will be...

Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Stockman Grass Farmer

This past week I received my first two issues of The Stockman Grass Farmer magazine. They were running a special (like all publications alw...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Sorry for the late post...

Okay, you know how I mentioned a special trip yesterday? Well, the pictures in this post give you an idea of what that was all about! Yep,...

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men...

Well, I went to the farm with high hopes yesterday. But, there were two things which I forget to plan for. Number one... the weather! We ...

Monday, October 22, 2007

Going to the Farm

Every once in a while (not nearly often enough) we have a chance to head down to the farm for a day. We make sure the chickens have feed an...

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...

Friday, October 19, 2007

New Blog Colors...

Okay, I have had a few people mention to me that the blog was difficult to read with the black background and white font. I decided I would...

Conventional Wisdom...

From Wikipedia: Conventional wisdom (CW) is a term coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society, used to describe...

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...

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Last of Joel Salatin for now...

Okay, I know that I've hit Joel Salatin a lot here lately (to be fair, I did have a lot of Allan Nation posts lately!), but this will be...

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Farming and Business Week

Check out "A New Push to Make Farming Profitable" . This is an article written about Joel Salatin's Polyface Farm from August...

Monday, October 15, 2007

Family Farming...

There are family farms, and then there are family farms... There are 1,000 acre plus operations run by a group of siblings in the form of c...

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