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.
Saying goodbye to good neighbors
How do you say goodbye when good neighbors move?
We always think we’ve paid our due
It seems, somehow, that we had a very good year last year. It's always shocking, isn't it, to be told just how much your...
