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We just received another 200 meat birds for customers in NC. One brooder wasnt enough, so we split the chicks across two. I really like these ceramic heaters vs using heat lamps. They pull a lot less current and dont pose fire dangers. We should be processing another batch soon thats reached maturity. Let me know if you want to know what kind of brooder heaters we use.

"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred. A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors. That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success. Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing. So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place. They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition. And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind. You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product.

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Bought a billy goat at auction today. He’s a shade of red. Wife wants to call him ginger billy

I just recorded this traffic on the nashville network. This is a healthy and active network. My understanding is there are a few areas of the US similar to this such as around Washington State and into BC Canada.

Have you checked your trailer tires lately? I went to get telephone poles the other day and found this after I was loaded. I took the back roads home. It took a while to get home. But if I’d blown this tire at speed it would have taken even longer.

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Canning today.

Rotational grazing like standard ranchers do is NOT the same as AMP grazing like we do. A few days ago, I continued to move the cattle through their new pasture. Dry weather is tough as the grass our pastures still hasnt rebounded from the rain last week. The cows crushed oir neighbor's centipede grass as they moved through in the first picture. In the aerial picture you can see how the cattle moved through the paddocks in a counter clockwise rotation. The concept of AMP grazing (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) is central to regenerative agriculture methods. You can see 9 paddocks that the cattle get moved across in 9 days. The cattle cant go back and visit a prior space where they liked the forage better or deposit more manure in one area than another in that field. Each paddock gets one day of intensive grazing, and then 30 days of rest and regrowth. AMP grazing is highly structured, requires daily human planning and movement, and regenerates soil dramatically better/faster than traditional "pasture rotation".

If Squash borers- can't tell in the image- old farmer recommended I put toothpicks on either side of the stalks when they come up. It worked. Don't know why but it did and I continue to do it- And by the by- I use dr Bonner Castile soap in a spray bottle -4 to 1 with water a one drop of dawn dish soap to keep it separated. I spray it on all pests and it works

Good checks. Losing color. Still too wet but doing well.