Archive for February, 2012

Chase & Queen Not a Day Too Soon

Their time was up…they were slated to be euthanized as so many others are that don’t get homes. So often it’s because people don’t let them go into homes that want them. Thankfully, not all shelters have that view. It meant some organizing and some last minute calls to not kill them before arrangements were [...]

What Do Your Pets Eat?

Many people are interested in what they eat and how it was produced, and that transfers to their pets. Dogs and cats are carnivores. Meats are a part of their diet for maximum health. Cats must have meats – taurine is an essential for life nutrient for them. At the same time, the “healthy” foods [...]

Never Stop Trying New Things

Crowdsourcing has become very popular in some circles. Often catering to an “artsy” crowd, it’s increasingly used for small businesses. At a recent small business webinar I attended it was mentioned as a viable idea for small businesses to avoid debt issues, something that is definitely an interest. Because the ‘rewards’ are different than “just [...]

Occupying Food Choices

Browse our website and blog pages and you’ll see much about food choices. We love food choices! Making them, providing them, seeing others provide them. We appreciate those farms larger than us because it means fewer have no food. We cannot provide for all. It takes a variety of types and sizes of farms to [...]

Will You Occupy Our Food Supply?

Across the social media world today you may see mention of the Occupy Our Food Supply. It seems like one must occupy something to protest or call attention to it. We call that making food choices. The Occupy <whatever> is beginning to irritate many people. Although the Occupy Our Food Supply sounds noble, and indeed [...]

Ag In The Bible – Refiner’s Fire

~ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil.” Luke 6:45 Sometimes being different is good. Sometimes the imperfect animal can be the perfect solution. For example, the Jacob sheep does not conform to [...]

Outdated Things

As normal course for the day on a weekend, I made a trip to town to get feed this morning and ran a few other errands to make the most of the fuel used getting there. One of those meant going into a store I dislike but sometimes need to shop at. I noticed stacks [...]

A Little Blog Housekeeping

We’re taking part in an agblog series next month, and in preparation comes tidying up and getting ready for new and established readers. So, in keeping with what feels like “home” and what represents ‘us’ we’ve gone to a wood grain look as our blog page. Same content, and you can still access farm info, [...]

Long Days

Well we’ve had a couple litters of babies, lost one of them for unknown reasons. It’s been some spring preparations of a different kind, preparing raised beds, tilling soil, hauling manure, planting cooler weather things like lettuce. Above photo is dug up framed in bed. Below is after manure, compost and soil are added. Above [...]

Urban Agriculture to Feed America?

This sounds like a great idea. There’s so much that urban agriculture *could* do. Yes there is. And there is a much shorter list of why it won’t work that comes to one word. People. We’ve started where we were, growing to a level to be able to move onto a larger property. The “great [...]

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