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The Pasture, Family Farm, Autumn 2019

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Chris Naffziger
Afield Central Illinois, Family Farm, Farms, Illinois
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Family Farm, Deer Creek Township, Illinois, August 2019

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Chris Naffziger

Horses have come to my family’s farm in Illinois, and they are enjoying the wide open space of the pasture on the west side of the road. The cattle peacefully coexist at the southern end of the pasture on the day… Continue Reading →

Afield Barns, Central Illinois, Family Farm, Illinois
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From the Vault: Family Farm, Maynard, Iowa

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Chris Naffziger

Update: The house was removed in 2019. Back in September 2011, when I photographed my family’s farm northwest of Maynard, Iowa, the corn was just about ready to start turning a golden brown, ready for harvest. There is a pale… Continue Reading →

Afield Early Twentieth Century Eclectic, Family Farm, Houses, Iowa
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Sesquicentennial Ownership of Family Farm

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Chris Naffziger
Afield Central Illinois, Family Farm, Farms, Illinois
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Old Cottonwood Tree, August 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Chris Naffziger

Against all odds, the last of five cottonwood trees planted several generations ago is still alive. The debris from when it was hit by lightning has been cleaned up since 2016.

Afield Central Illinois, Family Farm, Farms, Illinois
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Family Farm, August 2018

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Chris Naffziger

Things are looking good around the family farm, even if it has been a dry summer. The barns are now surrounded by grass and corn.

Afield Barns, Central Illinois, Family Farm, Farms, Illinois
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Cottonwood Tree, Family Farm

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Chris Naffziger

Update: See the cottonwood tree in August of 2018. As late as August 2015, this cottonwood tree, the last of four or five “natural lightning rods” was still alive and well. The ice storm in early 2016 felled the deadwood.… Continue Reading →

Afield Central Illinois, Family Farm, Illinois
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Family Farm, Deer Creek Township, Tazewell County, Illinois, Late February

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Chris Naffziger

The family farm is looking good this February, and preparations are already beginning for planting this spring. The frost in the ground is melting, and the water is leaching up to the surface, making for some thick mud around the… Continue Reading →

Afield Barns, Central Illinois, Family Farm, Illinois
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Family Farm, August 2015

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Chris Naffziger
Afield Barns, Central Illinois, Family Farm, Illinois
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Barns, Family Farm, Deer Creek Township, Illinois

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Chris Naffziger

The two historic barns on the family farm are looking good; freed from the muddy cattle lots which surrounded them for decades, they now sit in green grass and ground cover.

Afield Barns, Central Illinois, Family Farm, Illinois

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