non-GMO Feed
Happy Saturday morning! It is another chilly below freezing morning on the farm today. Morning rounds went well except for our frigid fingers! We didn't do anything with milk yesterday and we didn't g
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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.
Calf Sharing
Happy Friday!! We awoke to a chilly subfreezing morning with the prospects of plentiful sunshine and near 50 degrees today. Morning rounds went well with nothing significant to report. We are constant
Who's the sucker?
We awoke to a brisk 39 degree sunny morning. The wind is blowing so it feels about 10 degrees cooler and our hands got pretty cold during morning rounds. The farm is a bit soggy after the half inch of
Murphy's Law...Amended
I would still much rather do the morning rounds in the 50 degree drizzle than the -30 degree windchill of those recent December mornings. For the most part, all of the animals are good on the farm tod
Farm yet?
Good Tuesday morning from the farm! All is well on the farm this morning. The sickly ewe is still with us, she has to decide whether she wants to stand up each morning, but again decided to go ahead a
Pig Paddock Performed
The hogs making the decision to move to their new paddock The hogs exploring their new paddock Calf #3 for 2023, Devon bull calf Shelley setting out to mow the 4 acres near the hogs Clabber hanging to
Pig Paddock Plan
Happy Sunday from Free Missouri! I trust everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend. I want to start by saying thank you to those of you that leave comments on here or on the facebook posts; it is enc
Online Farming?
We awoke to a cold 19 degree high humidity morning with frost on everything. It quickly turned into 'one of those mornings.' I couldn't get the wood in the wood-burning stove to light so that set us b
Clabber and Quark
Happy Friday from Air2Ground Farms!! Thinking of our active duty friends and family, we wish you a very happy and relaxing 4-day weekend! I attached a "Happy Friday" pic of Shelley and I after unrolli
Midwest Nice
All is well this morning and we got to experience that precipitation that may be large sleet or may be small hail, not sure, during rounds. Makaylah accompanied me to feed the hogs this morning, the t
Free Missouri
Happy foggy Wednesday morning from Free Missouri! The top pic is the beautiful moonrise last night. The bottom pic is the "grounds crew" distributing the straw and manure on the (still not covered) ga
Time-vs-money
Happy Tuesday! Good morning from Air2Ground Farms! Mornings like this one (39 degrees and sunny, on its way to 60 degrees and sunny) make up for the dreadfully cold mornings a month ago. The animals a