2023 Harvest

We just got through yet another harvest. It was successful and busy and fun and we had a great crop this year. Last year was different. With very little moisture, a lot of farmers in the area struggled. We were happy to see things turn around this year and I learned to appreciate the snow in the winter and what it does to carry you through into spring.

This year, River hit a couple big milestones with harvest. At only 7 years old he started to drive the combine and he couldn’t have been happier. He also set a record of being out harvesting for 17 hours. He is truly learning what it means to work hard and see the end result of your hard work.

River cutting in the combine

Butchering Day

I am so dang proud of these things!

This is the 3rd year and I always wake up with a bit of an uneasy feeling in my stomach about what the morning is going to bring. I feel like if you didn’t have that feeling though, you might be a serial killer or something. I think its just human nature. It sure does feel good though when they are all done and on their way to the freezer.

This year I started out with ten and ended with ten. I didn’t lose any. I have learned that it is an art to get them all to processing day without dying. I learned a little trick from the Hutterite Colony up the road, if they are kept in a darker room they tend to not move around so much, making it less likely that they’ll flip over and die. I think a major part to that also though, is not overfeeding them. I let them go to 7 weeks this year and I am satisfied with their size.

I am proud to be a women who can grow and harvest my own food. I think it is a skill everyone should learn.

My first blog post

I hate blogs. I especially hate the ones that you venture to to find a recipe only to have to scroll through paragraphs and paragraphs on what flour is and how its milled and how they grew their carrots to make the damn thing. Anyways, so I’ll keep these simple. They are simply to share a little bit about what is going on on the farm, our Rabbitry. Mostly “big farm moments”. I wanted to start sharing this way, because I wanted to live more free from my phone. But I didn’t want to drop off the face of the earth because I still have a family I live far from who would love to still be updated. Because I still have a business that is growing everyday that I need to run efficiently. But lets get a little raw for a minute. We all stare at our phones and ignore our children. This is one MAJOR step to stop doing that as much as I can. I have stopped and thought long and hard about that and looked at what I am doing the most when I am on my phone and Instagram is the major part. I will only have Instagram on my desktop, making my hands free to play, create and love on my children. So that is the honest truth about why I am doing this. I also just really needed to create a website again for my business that is now growing into a Rabbitry that we love so much.

“The greatest gift I can give to my children is my time, my love, and my attention.”