Aug 16
Adam Faughn, a fellow blogger and preacher, asked me to write a guest post for his site A Legacy of Faith. He assigned the interesting topic of “10 Lessons on Parenting from a Small Family Farm.” Adam wrote a post for me this past week on “3 Ways To Turn Off Guests at Worship.” Check …
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Jun 18
We have Barbados Blackbelly Sheep on the farm. They are a breed of hair sheep. They do not have wool like traditional sheep. They do look very much like goats. In fact, most everyone thinks they are goats. Even a vet kept calling them goats. We just had a new lamb this week. We named …
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Feb 22
I have not given a farm report since September. I wanted to give an update on the farm and share some reflections on our first year. 1. We have been very pleased with how much of a blessing the farm has been for the kids. We thought that Austin our oldest may not like the …
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Sep 26
It will be a year in October that we bought our farm. We have poured lots of work into the farm over this past year. We had hoped to be living at the farm by now, but our house has not sold. If you are looking for a good 3 bedroom house in Mayfield …
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Jul 27
Our goal this year was to grow some sweet corn to sell. We were only wanting to do around 3/4 of an acre. We didn’t want to grow just any corn, but “organic” corn; i.e. no artificial fertilizer nor herbicide. We worked the ground this spring. It seemed like it took a million trips over …
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Jun 12
This is the third report on our new home and farm progress (The first, The second). In this report I want to emphasize that we have been humbled and grateful for all of the help we have received. Before saying more, I would like to update our progress. We have electricity!! We got a pole …
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Apr 15
Last October we bought a farm. I shared why in a post in November that many of you read. I want to occasionally give updates on how our new home and farm plans are coming. I will call these posts “Farm Reports.” I numbered this #2 since it is following the post back in the …
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Nov 19
As I mentioned in a previous post, we recently bought a 20 acre farm in Graves County, Kentucky. I thought some might find it interesting to know why we did such. We thought through the decision over a period of time and continue to establish our goals and aims with the purchase. This post is …
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Nov 12
I grew up on a row-crop farm in Southeast Missouri. I enjoyed the farm life. We recently purchased a 20 acre farm here in Graves County, KY. I knew some of the information I am going to share with you, but did not know the stats were this significant. Statistics In the early 1900’s there …
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