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Three months on our new place....Three months ago, we packed up and moved north to our new farm. Three months ago we had no water, no electricity, no sewer, no phone. Now, we have that and more thanks to my hard-working husband. We have put a temporary roof on top of the old farm house, plowed and planted 5 acres to field corn, mulched and weeded our large garlic patch, planted a good-sized garden as well as a large area to sweet corn, pumpkins, gourds, squash and decorative corn (for the farmer's market), mulched and are still weeding those gardens, cultivated the field corn, raised 70 chicks for egg laying, almost raised 100 chickens for butchering (a mink slaughtered over 90 of them before they made it to our freezer), bought a flock of 25 sheep, sheared them and fenced in pasture for them, bought a pregnant sow and now have 13 3 week old piglets, castrated the boars, bought 2 heifers, are still milking 3 of our goats does, weened two goat kids, scrapped metal to make ends meet financially, baled 34 acres of hay, mowed the front yard of the old farm house for the first time in many, many years (it was the dustiest mowing experience I'd ever had!), chain-sawed trees down that were leaning on top of the old pole barn, old machine shed, old hog barn and the large old hay/animal barn (to try to help them last a little longer) and listened to many, many delightful and entertaining stories from Grandpa and John about the farm.We are leaner, more brown, have more muscle and sleep deeper slumbers compared to three months ago. We've never worked harder in our lives, yet never experienced such fulfullment. Friends from Indiana encouraged us and sent us off with this verse, "The land now desolate will be tilled, instead of lying waste for every passer-by to see. Everyone will say that this land which was waste has become like a garden of Eden" (Ezekial 36:34-35). While it is not a garden of Eden, we sure are enjoying tending the land. The Farmer's Wife 10:00 - 2006-Jun-28 - post comment
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Description Sharing our thoughts, events, ups and downs, as we restore a once profitable farm to its former greatness as a Christian agrarian family. Home User Profile Archives Friends Lighthouse Farm Our DVD's for homesteader's Homestead Series e-books Lighthouse Farm Podcasts No NAIS Recent Entries - Pig-headed or chicken-hearted???? - Health care - the way it used to be - The Egg Hog - Back in blogdom after chasing sheep - Ode to Winter 2007 - Chicken and Hog DVD's are now finished!! - Video clip of the birth of a piglet - News about Haitian friends!!!!! - Authentic AgricultureTM - Welcome! - A Peaceful Night in the Pasture - Big Sale at The Old Schoolhouse!! - Rendering Lard - Hog Butchering Time - John Ray - Founder of Biology - A Breath-taking Field Trip - Fat and Sassy - Real Men Eat Quiche - Green Tomato Recipes - Harvest - Two Cents Worth on Pinching Pennies... - Cockle burrs and stinging nettle a blessing? - Gourmet Meals At The Farm Table - Seeds Worth Saving - Sweet cartoon - Commercial rice supply has been contaminated - Spermicidal Corn - Agricultural Science Fiction Horror Flick or Truth? - SImple Entertainment - "Gardening is like a treasure hunt!" - Pigs don't stink - Diggin' For Gold!! - Rain - a Blessing or a Curse? - My Sheep Know My Voice - er - Chain Saw... - The Old Farm Dog - An Alarming Nightime Visitor - Farming Magazine - A Pig's Nest - Meager chicken harvest - Bacon + Garlic = Piglets? - A Rare July 4th Tribute to Farmers - Fencing in more pasture - Three months on our new place.... - Blood suckers in Minnesota :( - Miss Bacon and Rocky Mountain Oysters - Sheep without a shepherd - Haying with my man! - Mink solutions, anyone? - Goat meets pig... - I Smell a Skunk... - URGENT!! Please forward!!!! - Did Adam Smell Like That? - Minnesota!!!!! - Problem solved - God is good - The Rat Trap and One Happy Girl - New Podcast - Farm Restoration - The Beginning - An Honorable Gentleman Has Died - Why teach our children about agriculture? - Cheap, Safe Food??? - New NAIS links worth reading - Old Tractors Never Die - A Lawyer comments on Constitutional Rights and NAIS - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - Big Bellies and Big Bags - Hosting Haitians on the Homestead - Minnesota, Here We Come (after we sell our house) and "the Chip" - And God saw that it was good - Greetings |