As we commence our 24th year of operation here, there is an undeniable seasonal rhythm to the management of the farm that we have grown accustomed to. Though some things are obviously different in the autumn of 2020 — our lack of a fall show season, training the 2019 yearlings in short-sleeves on November 29th,…
Our son, Sam, is working his way towards becoming a full-fledged commercial pilot, with over 500 hours already logged in the cockpit of various planes but when he’s home from college and has some time on his hands, he also likes to play around with his drones and do a little amateur movie making for…
For whatever reason yesterday felt as though it could have been the first day of spring as opposed to another overly-mild day of a long winter run amuck. The sun was out, it was in the mid 50s, and the roads were even finally starting to dry up, at least here on the farm itself….
We’ve spent the last 5 days or so shifting the farm into it’s winter stance and I’d been meaning to (and probably still will) snap a photo or two to show you all what that entails. Of course I thought that with our pastures essentially used up for the season that we were just being…
The Arena and Main Barn are slowly but surely starting to empty out as we begin the process of sending roughly half of the herd out to pastures away from the buildings themselves. From my office window in fact I can see our rather small group of yearling males happily munching on almost 10″ of…
Days like today on the farm quite literally make you happy to be alive! Perhaps it’s partly still the affect of post-shearing euphoria — as in “naya, naya, naya: we don’t have to do that again for 12 months” — but with the birds making their spring symphony, a wonderful breeze, 60 degrees, and nary…
