In other words, this door unlocks me. My heart, my past, and my imagination. I’ve enjoyed sharing my stories with you. I’ve enjoyed making each of these little pieces of art. Thank you so much for taking this journey with me.
When you have a pig roast at your house you can ice the pig in it before you roast it and then wash it out well and fill it with ice, soda, water, and beer. A smaller tank will hold ice and a keg.
She has a little dump wagon she can haul manure, soil, and rocks in. She tills the garden with it and the garden has never been better. Mom’s thrilled for the chance to use her little rig and uses it even when doesn’t need to.
When my children were small I had a few additional children that spent their days with me. We had to go grocery shopping once a week. I would line everybody up and tell them they were baby ducks and I was a mama duck. It worked.
On a family farm, some of the cream might be skimmed off and used for whipping, butter, or mixing with whole milk for coffee. Commercial dairy operations use a separator.
Pasture pens are open-air structures that have a roof covering 3/4 of the top surface. Half of the side surface is also solid. The remaining surfaces are covered with chicken wire.
There is a hen door with a ramp for hen access and the farmer enters by the door to collect eggs. At the bottom of the Winna-eggo is a loop of PVC with water nipples for clean fresh water.
It is so much fun to see the baby calves in the spring because they’re so cute. They look like little teddy bears bouncing around the field.
All of Sisu farm’s cattle are grass-fed and finished. They’re a meat breed cattle and this is one of our bulls. His name is Barryl ad he’s very friendly. Occasionally he wants to go and visit other cows and he does, he just goes.
Why SISU? Or what is SISU? It’s a Finnish word that doesn’t have a direct translation into English. It means perseverance, hardiness, bravery, resilience, and grit. I think it fits what they’re doing really well.