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Farm Frugality - When Want Goes Away
When I was 39 (17 years ago) I met frugality. Back then, it arrived cloaked as minimalism. I took stock of my belongings and began to see...
Sarah Brenner
Sep 18, 20245 min read
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Farm Projects & Farm Direct Shopping
Yearend is when farmers reinvest their earnings back into the business. Building maintenance, machinery updates, new tires, parts and...
Sarah Brenner
Dec 7, 20232 min read
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Is socialization pooping you out?
This is Spooky Chicken. He's one of our steers who always wants to be alone. Bill fixed the yard fence today and Spooky Chicken left the...
Sarah Brenner
Oct 25, 20235 min read
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Help Me Build a BLUE ZONE
(Happy scenery on the farm-to-farm walking tour) Ever since landing myself in the ER to find that I needed a pacemaker, I have become...
Sarah Brenner
Oct 18, 20232 min read
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In a dry year you get DONE
Time to start foraging chamomile for FARM TEA FARMER WILLIAM says, If it doesn't rain, we won't have second crop hay to cut and bale....
Sarah Brenner
Jun 14, 20232 min read
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The Symbolic Meaning of Food
This time of year the sun's abrupt angle starts to feel harsh conjuring Fall and its hazy hot yellows. The quiet blanketed greens give...
Sarah Brenner
Aug 30, 20224 min read
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Watch Your Step
There is A LOT going on out here on the farm despite the very crappy weather! William has been feeling very boxed in unable to get...
Sarah Brenner
Apr 20, 20222 min read
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Burn Piles or Hugelkultur?
It's that time of year when we're all itching to get outside, clean up the perennial landscaping and fantasize about this year's kitchen...
Sarah Brenner
Mar 30, 20223 min read
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Maple & Mud Madness
Once March in Wisconsin comes around all you hear are things like, "Get your trees tapped?" "How many you tap this year?" "Your trees...
Sarah Brenner
Mar 23, 20224 min read
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