Tag: family farms
Losing our connection to the land
As agriculture becomes more corporate, farmers and their families lose their connection to the land.
A farmer worth a million dollars
Judith Sutherland had a modest childhood on the farm, but she'll never forget the day her father's tax accountant told him he was worth a million dollars.
Self-discipline is built into farm life
Nothing good ever comes from boredom — something most farm kids don't experience. Self-discipline is built into daily chores, the more demanding the better.
Open fields afforded a new learning adventure each day
Judith Sutherland grew up on a family farm in the 1960s and '70s. Learn why she believes it was one of the last best times and places to have been a kid.
Pausing harvest for Thanksgiving
In the Guebert household, Thanksgiving was reserved for family, feasting, and loud, laughter-filled Pinochle games.
The little fainting goat who wouldn’t
Judith Sutherland long ago figured out she doesn't have a fainting goat because Mabel refuses to believe she is any kind of goat at all.
Electric fences build character
It took grit, strength and determination to close the fence on her family farm every day. Little did Judith Sutherland know, it didn't have to be so hard.
Something special about farm dogs
There is something about a farm dog that makes us all stop and wonder why a good dog can't live as long as we do.
Respecting land stewards of the past
There was the feeling of carrying the torch for the people who came before us, farming the land with a nod of respect to its history.
Slipping away like morning fog
Alan Guebert recalls mid-September mornings on his father's dairy farm.
