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About Me

LATEST UPDATE WE GET TO KEEP THE FARM AND STAY. all the crap with moving to the city blew up and everything on the job front at home resolved it self. There is someone up there that wants this family to stay on the farm and out of the cities.
I am going to post a lengthly recap of the past 2 months as I have time sorry for getting back to everyone so slowly it has just been one of those years.I got to get back out to the barn as the lated bunch of does are all deciding to kid out now. 6 new doe kids all before lunch whew when it rains it pours.
BREAKING NEWS. After much debate and weighing options we are going to have to move back to the city. You see we are in the process of adopting a wonderful little boy, The problem lies with in that out in the middle of nowhere we cannot get him the services he needs for his best chance at a normal life. Last Wednesday we were finally appointed as his legal guardians and I can freely make this announcement with out the fear of him being taken away from us. The Farm was listed with United Country and the last of the goats were taken to the sale barn with the exception of Tooth Gnasher and Chili that we gave to another couple on the one condition that they could not be sold or eaten since they became more pets then animals.
removed cause it just isnt true anymore
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Howdy! We are a small family run Hobby Farm in rural Missouri. Basically My wife and I got tired of eating all the chemicals that we used to found in regular commercial produce and meat. So being the enterprising people we are we decided to buy a farm and do it for our selves. (since there isnt a wild oats out here or a trader joes) After just jumping into this full tilt with no idea of what the hell we were doing. We decided it would be great to start a forum so that other new hobby farmers could have a place to discuss what to do and how to do it. We especally would love for everyone to at least make a container garden in the city like we used to do for our fresh tomatoes,
If you would like to stop on by the forum and take a look see. Lots of tutorials on all sorts of topics. Metalworking, Livestock, Politics of farming, NAIS, Tools & Equipment, Not to mention project ideas and walk throughs. Just click on the banner above and feel free to look around.

My Interests

Apples, Goats, Farming, Hobby farming, Self reliance, Homesteading, Tractors, Bee keeping and the big one Metalworking yep im a novice artist blacksmith. (although I know the principals it is just a matter of placing hammer to steel and perfecting my art.

I'd like to meet:

Organic growers, Hobby Farmers, Homesteaders, Hippies, Self reliant folks, Artist blacksmiths, Goat breeders, welders,

Music:

Darn near everything, Irish, Punk, Celtic, Rock, Metal, Country, Rock, 60-90's R&B, Etc. The only thing I cannot stand is ganster rap, I knew a few good cops (the kind of people that you would like to know) who met there end due to some thugs image of a badass.

Movies:

Land of Confusion-Disturbed

Watch the video pretty much sums up a lot.

Impressive Solar Power Commercial

A commercial for solar-power pioneers. More on http://news.itsartmag.com I really dont have time for movies.

Television:

Last TV show I saw was ER and that was because I was sick on the couch and my wife wouldent let me work.

Books:

Story's book of country skills I swear this thing is like the bible for useful how too's.

Heroes:

Benjamin Franklin. "A penny saved is a penny earned."

My Blog

Crops and relaxation

Well one of my favorite things to do lately is to just mow. Lots of time to sit there and think while on top of a lawn tractor and now that I have the small self driven brush mower i can finally...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:44:00 PST

To hell with St Louis, this is where i am going to raise my family and die of old age.

To hell with St Louis. Well as I have told some of ya'll in April of this year I quit my job to relocate to St Louis. So that I could provide for my son a better chance at life as he is d...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:14:00 PST

Chickens related to the T-Rex

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2056218,00.html Well this news story is blowing up all over then internet and major news outlets. Science has been able to extract protein from a T-Rex le...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:10:00 PST

Family before self

BREAKING NEWS. After much debate and weighing options we are going to have to move back to the city. You see we are in the process of adopting a wonderful little boy, The problem lies with...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:04:00 PST

Weekly update

Ok Sunday rain rain go away...Oh wait what do we have here one of the does decided it was a good day to hit a triple and drop 3 bucklings Pictures HereWind rain and general ickiness at the swamp... I...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:11:00 PST

Quick post of updates

Sold the suffolk sheep at the livestock auction house. they brought in $600 after fees Got a count of the trees in the orchard (160), started a grid and pruning them we are at about 30% done wit...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:14:00 PST

New this week

Ok here is the scene with the aminals. Violet got really sick and miscarried 2 kids, Steph things that she is going to be ok now she has been injecting her with pennec...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:28:00 PST

Now with rabbits and soon sheep (thanks to freecycle)

Well I seem to keep amazing my wife. She mentioned a month or so ago that she was interested in getting some rabbits to raise and then I found on the local freecyle list a listing for rabb...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:55:00 PST

Snow Poor weather and trucks

Howdy yall Well first thing I have to say is BRRR Howcome with 2 ft of snow on the ground it just feels colder? Yep that is right we got 24 inches of snow on Thurs...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:21:00 PST

working and bunnies

Howdy again folks I have been working on a nice little template for the farm newsletter. Havent gotten much done in the way of that though. Still chugging along with our...
Posted by Idunnasgrove on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:52:00 PST