Country living
Country Living
Friday night football, Saturday night tractor pulls and Sunday morning church. Parades, the Fireman’s Carnival and Rescue Squad Chicken dinners. Hiking and four-wheeling. We play as hard as we work!
2019 Virginia Women in Agriculture Gathering
Some ag conferences focus on problems. Some focus on fixes. The 2019 Women in Ag conference was the latter.
About All That Mud
Sometime you manage mud. Sometimes you just accept it.
The Differences Between Hay and Straw
Farming has its own language, and sometimes people outside of the farming community don't understand what we're saying, no matter how slowly or how...
Farmer and Homesteader?
Are You a Farmer or a Homesteader? (Or Something Else?) Ninety percent of farming isn't really what we may think of as farming. In conversations...
Lessons Learned from NaNoWriMo
November is National Novel Writing Month, affectionately referred to as NaNoWriMo, (https://nanowrimo.org/) and, though I'm not writing a novel, I'm...
Farm Lanes – Connecting Neighbors, Connecting Families
Growing in the Midwest, farm lanes were a thing. It was a cropping region, with no livestock, other than seasonal 4H project animals. With little...
“Sucking at It” is No Excuse
You Don't Need to be Good to be a Runner. You Just Need to Run Sometimes you have to just finally admit that the things you like to do aren't...
What is Farming? What is Farmland?
Farmlands are working lands, providing short term and long term economic opportunities.