The ducklings hatched one week ago, and their rate of growth is impressive. Here are photos from yesterday, when Midnight took them for their first field trip to the dandelion patch just outside the barn. Does this spark any early memories of your own field trips or vacations? If so, please leave a comment – [...]
Archive for the ‘Life on the Farm’ Category
20 May
New Life at the Flying T
Spring is the season of new life. After the long harsh winter (well, not this year!), the ground thaws, the trees bud, and most animals begin to raise their new young. This week, a bit late in the spring, brought the first births from the livestock at the Flying T, courtesy of our flock of [...]
11 Apr
Spring is in the Air
Spring is in the air here at the Flying T. Our resident Boer Goats, Jessie and Gracie, are off at another farm for a month or so in the hopes that they make very close friends with the buck there. That would bring us kids in September. In their place, we welcomed two more 4-month-old [...]
1 Mar
In Like a Lion…
It’s been pretty crazy-busy here at the Flying T (and at our other activities, including the professions that support them), and looking back I can see it’s been nearly three weeks since our last post. It’s not that we didn’t have anything about which to write – we actually have a ton of material, especially [...]
16 Feb
Unsung Heroes
We’ve lived all over the United States and a bit of time outside the country as well, and we’ve met a lot of great people from all walks of life in the process. However, one group of wonderful folks we really didn’t get to know before we moved out to our farm. Boy, have we [...]
31 Jan
The Egg Business – Progress Report
Our 7-year-old son runs the egg business on our farm. We paid the startup costs – buying the chicks, converting an emu hut to a coop, and buying feed and supplies. Once the first group started laying, he took over the rest. He now buys the food, cares for the chickens and eggs, markets the [...]
20 Jan
Is a Degree in Agriculture Useless?
Yahoo just published a story by Terence Loose, “College Majors that are Useless,” and it listed Agriculture degrees as the most useless. Horticulture and Animal Science also made the top (or bottom) five, together with Fashion Design and Theater. Ouch. One basis of this claim the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ (NACE) 2012 Job [...]
3 Jan
2012 Farm Resolutions
Traditionally, many folks make resolutions on New Year’s Day. I can honestly say that I’ve never done that. It’s not that I don’t think resolutions are important – I’ve made them, just never specifically on New Year’s day. I guess I’ve always figured if it’s important enough to make a formal resolution to do something, [...]
1 Jan
Homemade Christmas Gifts
We are blessed, really. Even though we intentionally had a down-sized bounty under the tree this year, we were overwhelmed with the generosity of friends and family. I don’t want to disparage any of the amazing and thoughtful gifts we received this Christmas, but I would like to highlight some of the creative homemade ones. [...]
24 Dec
An Agrarian Christmas
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. – Luke 2:8 Though we grew up hearing this verse that starts the story of the first visitors to Christ’s birth, the only concept we had about what shepherds were in that time were idealized images of pastel-robed [...]
A Joyful Birth
