FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS Over the last week I’ve been working on an organic grower grant proposal to get resources to improve our packing shed. Part of the grant writing process is of course to step back and take a bird’s eye view: how will we use grant resources to achieve greater sustainability? It […]
FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS Anna loves to tell the story about how I gave myself a double hernia at four years old, digging a hole in the ground for fun. Sometimes we Baumanns keep trying things when we probably ought to just quit! Growing eggplant is another example of a task requiring persistence (or […]
FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS We finally sold all our feeder cattle on Friday. As many of you know, about 18 months ago we experienced a BVDV outbreak in our herd of freshly weaned, light weight feeder calves that were new to the farm. We experienced a catastrophic loss of around 30% of our herd […]
FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMER I’m sitting in line at the butcher this morning, anxious to get back to the farm and find my place in the Tuesday harvest dance. Tuesdays seems to be one of the busiest days on the farm, and it’s the only day of the week the butch processes chickens. It […]
FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS September and October are my favorite months to be in Kentucky. There’s a chill in the air, the sky is clear, and the humidity is low. Everything seems triggered to get it’s job finished before winter. All the weeds are going to seed, providing the farm with lots of beautiful […]
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FARM NEWS FROM THE FARMERS One question I am asked at least once every market is, “When are you going to have sweet corn?” My usual answer is that I don’t know, because making predictions about all things farm is risky business. Mostly, it’s simply hard to guess how quickly things will ripen, but lately […]
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