Pastured Poultry Processing Day 1
Happy Tuesday from Air2Ground Farms! Wow, what a great day! I'm going to give a quick update and share the pics with you. The animals are great on the farm today. We got everything set up and ready fo
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Colonel's Blog
322 posts on farm life, food freedom and raising real food in the Missouri Ozarks. Fighter-pilot habits applied to livestock, with the wins and the failures both written down.
Defying Illness Destiny
Happy Monday from Free Missouri! The warm, humid, rainy weather continues this week. We’ve had 3 inches over the past few days and are under a flood watch this evening for potential of up to 4 inches
Rethinking Heart Health: The Role of Seed Oils and Cholesterol
Happy Fast-Jet Friday, Y’all! Today’s fast-jet pic is, of course, the Mighty-Mighty F-15E Strike Eagle. That said, this pic is our second daughter, Hannah “HAIL” Slayton in the front seat! It has rain
Pastured Poultry Processing Preparation
Happy Thursday from Air2Ground Farms! The top pic is us enjoying the rain during rounds this morning. Isn't Shelley beautiful! The additional sparkle around her left eye just adds a little more charac
The Dark Side of Zero-Calorie Sweeteners
Hello and happy Wednesday from Air2Ground Farms! It’s been another warm muggy day with storms in the forecast. The animals are doing really well today but we still don’t have any Guinea keets hatching
Priorities...Where is Food?
The warm humid weather continues today. We can almost watch the grass growing. The animals on the farm are doing well today. The only real highlight is that Betty was especially vocal this morning. Sh
CAFOs & Antibiotics & mRNA...Oh My!!
This is some grass-growing weather! 80s and high humidity, could be more sunshine, but we’ll take it. The animals are great today! We spent some time with the ewes yesterday evening. They are about a
Milk Pasteurization Had a Place in History
Hello and happy Sunday from Air2Ground Farms! The weather changed...yesterday around noon. We started the day by milking early so we could get to the market and get set up by 0800. It was quite cool a
AI--Exciting not Scary!
Happy Fast-Jet Friday!! The bottom pic is the Mighty-Mighty Strike Eagle this week flying low-level through Wales. The pic immediately above is me just prior to a nuclear test mission. Next to me is a
Cost of Time
be with you…(I know, I’m mixing Star Trek and Star Wars, but I just couldn’t help it!) Hey Y’all! Hello and happy Thursday from Air2Ground Farms! The weather was warmer today and the humidity is up. Y
Two Short Years Later...
Happy Wednesday from Free Missouri! Another cool start to a warm, sunny day. We put rows in the garden yesterday in preparation for planting today based on the forecast weather. When I looked out this
Forming Opinions...Or Not
It was another quite cool, dry, sunny morning. It’s still looking like this weather pattern will continue through tomorrow with rains starting Thursday. The animals are great! The pics today are highl