Today, Jackson and I cleaned out the poultry house.  If I have been informed properly, the last birds that were on this property were Guinea fowl.  We found exactly one feather that looked like evidence of Guineas. I am very excited to get chickens and turkeys in Spring.  It will be our fist step toward [...]

Hardy   Sam, Jack and Comet were successful in naming our new tomcat after their favorite wrestlers, Matt and Jeff Hardy.  Hardy is about 12 weeks old, and we got him from a friend, Michael Murphy.  (No, he doens’t have any cats left.)  Kelly’s suggestion for the name was Murphy, and Jackson’s second choice was [...]

This morning, it was a cool 33 degrees.  Although Kelly had been warning me for a week, I finally decided that today was the day to cover my artichokes for the winter. Artichokes are not a standard crop in Nebraska.  They prefer warmer climates, but we decided that it would be worth the effort to [...]

Today, I spent a lot of the day with a chainsaw and an axe.  It’s time to get the winter’s wood supply stacked.  On the farm, we have a wood furnace, so the more we can burn, the less propane we need to buy.  Since this is our first year, we have no idea how [...]

I am proud to report that we are finally getting settled on the farm.  This year has been full of anticipation for us. In April, we signed the lease on our farm, but there were a lot of renovations that needed to be done to the farmhouse before we could move in.  We farmed here [...]