Field maneuvers with a bush hog
Levi and I went and picked up a well-used John Deere 5-foot bush hog and an Italian rotovator from a neighbor Thursday evening.Click to Continue »
View ArticleNo rest for the hardest worker
Bush-hogging and tilling is what I have been doing at work. Turning under summer annual cover crops, prepping land for fall crops and winter cover crops. I do the same…Click to Continue »
View ArticleDean Mullis: The joys of a big ole bush-hog
I finished bush-hogging last Saturday.Click to Continue »
View ArticleFarming’s heavy burden
At the autistic group homes/farm where I work, it has been a good week. We harvested 270 pounds of Crowder peas on Monday and Wednesday. Staff and client plus farm…Click to Continue »
View ArticleHogs on the move
Jenifer and I loaded two hogs on our trailer Monday evening. On Tuesday morning, my dad brought down his road-worthy cattle trailer and he and Jenifer transferred them to his…Click to Continue »
View ArticleNeglected vines make potato babies
I don?t know what kind of insane thinking we were engaged in last spring when we planted a full acre of mostly Bintje potatoes along with 100 pounds of Purple…Click to Continue »
View ArticleLife on the Farm: Jenifer has been cleaning up
Jenifer has been cleaning up.Click to Continue »
View ArticleLife on the Farm: Got our garlic in the ground
We got our garlic in the ground this week.Click to Continue »
View ArticleTom Turkey made it through another Thanksgiving
For those who have asked, Tom Turkey made it through another Thanksgiving. We only took a drumstick off him this year.Click to Continue »
View ArticleUrging recalcitrant hogs onto the trailer
I got one of the two hogs on the trailer Sunday evening after sowing some cover crops of rye and vetch and filling in some potholes in our dirt driveway…Click to Continue »
View ArticleDean Mullis: So long, drought; hello, rain
The drought ended while we were in Wisconsin for Christmas.Click to Continue »
View ArticleOur greenhouse is a mess!
Jenifer has started revamping our greenhouse. It is a mess. Bermuda grass crept in from the east side and now has taken over our greenhouse.Click to Continue »
View ArticleResisting the lure of seed catalogs
It is a really exciting time of year on the farm.Click to Continue »
View ArticleTom Turkey takes on the power company
The storm came through Wednesday night and our power flickered seven to eight times before finally going out. Tree on the lines somewhere, we thought.Click to Continue »
View ArticleFarm cleaned, golf cart fixed – and painted
We rented one of those huge 40-foot long dumpsters to clean up around the farm. It has only been here week and it is almost full.Click to Continue »
View ArticleWhere were customers? Cozy at home
Forecasts for cold rain are not conducive for a good farmers market.Click to Continue »
View ArticleMy phone is smarter than me
Dean spends some quality time figuring out his new old phone.Click to Continue »
View ArticleAfter 9 years, Tom takes his last strut
I just happened to be at our farm around noon on Thursday. I had come to get the 3/4-inch drill bit I use to drill holes for tomato stakes.Click to Continue »
View ArticleCan’t till with this wet soil
It was barely dry last Saturday and Sunday. I was hoping to do some tillage, but with the rain on Tuesday and the forecast of rain tonight through Sunday, I…Click to Continue »
View ArticleIt’s not easy being a goose
I got home from work Thursday evening around 6:30 and was met with a need for immediate household repairs.Click to Continue »
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