Why
Happy Monday! Another chilly good morning from Free Missouri! All animals are doing well this morning with nothing significant to report. We spent time on the domestic side of things yesterday and tid
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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.
Milk Processes
Happy Sunday! Please, go to the top of your screen and subscribe so you are notified when we post a new update. Greetings and good Sunday morning from Free Missouri! It is a beautiful cool morning on
Number 2
Red Devon Heifer Calf Red Devon heifer calf and her Red Devon Cow Mother Colonel's Blog, Earthdate 7 Jan 2023... Hey Ya'll!! Happy Saturday morning from Free Missouri! Days run together on a farm, it
Hay Bomb
Happy Friday!! Please, please...scroll to the top of your page, enter your email address, and hit subscribe! Yesterday I realized that these updates are at the mercy of the facebook algorithms that de
1st 2023 Farm-baby
A chilly good morning from the farm! We posed again for a pre-milking photo with Betty but later decided not to use that photo. Yesterday we continued tax prep to include stopping at several businesse
Shipping Update
We posed for a quick photo before milking this morning to say "Hey Ya'll!" Tax prep began yesterday and, like training the puppies, is an ongoing project. We also worked on a couple of house-related p
Farm Report
We awoke to another dense fog morning but it quickly burned off to a mostly sunny, mild temperature day. The gallon of milk I discussed yesterday yielded a pint of heavy cream and I used a quart to ma
Farm Tour
Happy New Year's Day Observed!! It is a very dense fog morning on the farm today. We successfully un-Christmased the house and generally tidied up. It is always a mixed emotion event with a bit of sad
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year!! We finished our barn organization project yesterday and I put a pic above for you to see the result. We finished just in time to do evening rounds. We don't have any major farm projec
Why farm?
Happy New Years Eve!! Good morning from Free Missouri! Yesterday's project of organizing the barn turned into a multi-day project, so we will be back at it again today. We will start the new year with
Forested Pork
Happy Friday!! All is well on the farm today. We were able to start working with the puppies yesterday and a couple already come to their name and sit when commanded. These are some smart dogs! They r
Why Air2Ground?
F-15E loaded with air to ground bombs Career shift from air (Air Force) focus to ground (regenerative farming) focus Confined Animal Feeding Operation vs Planned Grazing Regenerative farming practices