Tag: family farm
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Summer Has Arrived – Does That Mean the Ranch Work Stops?
In May, we hauled our cows from our ranch to the summer grass that we lease so that our home pastures can rest and grow for haying. The cows will spend five months grazing on vast grass pastures while they gestate their soon-arriving baby calves. The ladies will come back to our ranch around the…
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World Food Day 2014 – #wfd2014
Today is World Food Day and the theme is Family Farmers: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth. Well ain’t that the truth?! Did you know that worldwide, family farmers account for 500 million farms (97% of US farms and ranches are family owned and operated)?! That is a load of families investing their time,…
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Wordless Wednesday: Rest in Peace, Winnies
The Winnies at their prime – before Rooster and other varmints got them. So apparently I am able-bodied enough to care for three horses, two dogs and a large human child but I’m unable to care for and protect five birds. Rest in peace, Winnies. You are the last bunch of chickens I will attempt…
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Sustainability: Easy to Say, Difficult to Define
Cattle grazing in large pastures that have been in the same family for generations – that’s verysustainable, in my opinion. Sustainability is a buzz-word and news topic that is not going away anytime soon; remember the green movement? Well, now we’ve surpassed a movement and plowed full steam ahead into a reformation of the way…
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![Wordless Wednesday: [Corn] Blowin in the Wind](https://buzzardsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/IMG_20131006_154139_081.jpg)
Wordless Wednesday: [Corn] Blowin in the Wind
A wet cornfield on a windy day in Ohio – harvest is upon us!