It’s going to freeze here in Lower Alabama. It’s going to freeze! When you live on a farm and you have a bunch of critters to care for, this gets pretty serious. We’re not used to freezing temperatures down here. That freak snowfall we got a couple of weeks ago should have done …
Living on a farm is a real “Circle of Life” kind of experience. Papa from A Day No Pigs Would Die said, “Dyin’ and getting bornt is dirty work.” He wasn’t exaggerating. Raising animals, kind of like raising teenagers, can get downright grisly. I’m lucky enough to get to do both! Here’s what we have going …
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“I’m so glad I live in a world that has Octobers,” said the irrepressible Anne (with an “e”) Shirley as she breathed in the aura of Prince Edward Island. Languishing through the staggering heat and humidity that is a South Alabama August, I take heart from that gangly Titian of Green Gables and wipe the …
With all the wet weather, everything on the farm is growing like crazy…including the stench emanating from the poultry pens. The birds were churning up mud like pigs in slop. They have a really nice setup, though. Our flocks are protected from predators from land and sky, but the quagmire needed to be dealt with …
