Yearly Archives: 2012

At last week’s inaugural Philly Farm and Food Fest, Landon and I tested the chicken wits (or blind guessing ability) of the event attendees with a Match-the-Chicken-to-the-Egg Challenge.  Out of 60 contestants, 7 of you got the right answer.  Sorry everybody–it was a little harder than we intended it to […]

Who’s the Mom?

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Sanitation of farm equipment is one of those boring things farmers do in the winter.  We wish it could all be seed catalogs and daydreams, but some things things just have to get done. Over the past few months, Landon’s cleaned out loads of plug trays, burned some field debris, […]

Sanitation Nation

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You know those default conversation topics you fall back on when the need for small talk arises?  Television.  Baseball.  The absurdity of Rick Santorum.  Recently, I’ve found myself adding chicken tractors to my go-to mix.  “So, how ’bout those chicken tractors, huh?”  I just can’t stop chatting about them. So, […]

Steamboat Landing: The Story of a Chicken Tractor

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A few weekends back, Landon and I spent half of Saturday and most of Sunday shoveling manure from the barn floor to the spreader, rinse and repeat.  Toward the end of Day 2, our very supportive and well-intentioned landlord finally saw it fit to intervene:  “You know, it’s good exercise […]

Doing Things the Hard Way

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This season, we’re going to try out a new series of posts called “Farm Score”.  In these posts, we’ll identify a common farm task and try to decide which song provides the best accompaniment. In times of frustration or exhaustion, a good song can push you through even the most […]

Farm Score: Spreading Bedding

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