When I first sat down to write my annual year-end post, I thought I would end up just rearranging the words from last year. Much of what we do on the farm is the same day after day. This last year was not significantly different than the year before but as I reflected...
As summer eases into early fall, it’s a good time to share what has been going on here at the farm over the last few months. When this growing season started, the seeds we planted went into soil that was a little drier than we liked. We didn’t know that would be a...
While you cannot plan for everything that life may throw your way, planning for what you can is important as business owners. Being in Wisconsin we have everything from blizzards and barn collapse from snow to tornadoes and floods as weather disasters to keep in mind....
Every year I like to look back over the last 365 days and share a few of the highlights with you. This year I wanted to share some of our highs and for transparency’s sake, something that did not go well for us. So what went well? First, despite a more...
In my last post, I shared what life looks like for a heifer on our farm. In this post, I thought I would take you through what a year in the life of one of our milk cows looks like. There’s a slight difference between our cows that live in our robot barn versus the...
Our farm is not a family farm. I know that’s a bold statement when it seems like everyone wants to hold family farms up on a pedestal, but that’s just not who we are. I always wonder what defines a family farm for people, we aren’t a single family farm, we are a farm...
