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 farm. The terraces my grandfather built to block erosion still continue to do their jobs….

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.

Update: The barn on the left was destroyed by a tornado in March of 2023.

It’s late summer, and things are looking good around the family farm.

The cattle barn was built around ninety years ago; the two large sheds were built by my great-uncle to help support the barn and to store farm implements. The pasture is still brown from the winter. Replacement trees for the cottonwood trees that were all struck by lightning are coming along nicely as well. The…

The over one hundred year old horse barn on the family farm is still looking good, even after all these years. Preventative maintenance helps as well. Look at the size of those timbers holding up the roof.

The family farm was a treat this Labor Day weekend, as the weather was perfect, with sunshine and white, puffy clouds buffeted by a pleasant breeze. Grass has begun to grow in what had been a muddy cow lot only a year before. Ongoing efforts to regrade and clean up junk have been largely completed,…