Love and family, it just goes together
To family we are born.
Through the eyes of a 4-year-old
It has proven to be true: you can take the country boy off of the farm, but you can’t sweep the country off the boy.
Not all progress comes with engine
It was a pretty drive through farm country to attend Horse Progress Days in Mount Hope on a beautifully sunny Fourth of July.
The quiet...
Farming gets in your blood at birth: ‘I want to stay out here with...
Farming can get in a family's blood early on.
Sometimes the needy are closer to home than we think
There was a big family who had just moved in to our community, and one day in class I noticed the hole in the new boy’s shirt.
Enjoy your kids, time goes quick
Life, it has been said, is a series of dress rehearsals. If you keep working on it, one day you will be ready for...
The best stories always include a dog
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”
Learning farm ropes can be shocking
It made me stand up a little taller when my dad said to me one morning in the milking parlor, “I just couldn’t farm without you. You do good work.”
On a dairy farm, derby races are good cause for a break
Watching the big horse races was a family tradition.
Here’s to steady planting progress
With the arrival of mid-May, every farmer I know is feeling the need to push hard through any window of opportunity.
