by Melissa | Jun 1, 2018 | Farm Management, Horse Retirement Farm |
Over the past week Jason and I have partaken in what feels like all of the farm tasks. In reality we’ve done nowhere close to all of the things that happen around the farm but it feels like we’ve done them all. In addition to the usual feeding, grooming,...
by Melissa | Mar 1, 2018 | Farm Management, Horse Retirement Farm |
I mentioned in one of my last blogs that we’d had a lot of rain in February. I don’t remember the final February tally but it was a crazy number, something like 12 or 13 inches of rain. March has started off in the footsteps of February and we had at least...
by Melissa | Nov 30, 2017 | Farm Management, Horse Retirement Farm |
In case you missed it, I wrote about our saga with local fence builder Maury Fence Company back in August. Maury Fence Company thankfully only built about one mile of our six miles of fence. I cannot imagine having to face rebuilding all six miles of fence. You can...
by Melissa | Aug 17, 2017 | Farm Management, Horse Retirement Farm, What is it really like? |
Jason and I purchased this farm and began the process of building it out in early 2010. Long time readers of our blog will recall that we built the farm one pasture, one barn, and one run-in shed at a time. When we completed a pasture we would move a group of horses....
by Melissa | Aug 3, 2017 | Farm Management, Horse Retirement Farm |
(post by Jason) It’s a good job that everybody around here has something that they’re especially good at. Of course I think we’re all especially good at caring for horses, that goes without saying. But successful full time farms require people with a...
by Melissa | May 14, 2017 | Farm Management, Horse Retirement Farm |
Last week we spent a day, or more accurately mostly Jason spent a day, moving one of the cross fences between pastures. We have very few things we would do differently if we were finding ourselves building out the farm again, However, there is one thing that would top...
