“On the one hand, a fella could spend a whole lifetime pulling star thistle and not get that far, but on the other, I can look at the pasture and see that I’ve made a significant difference over the last few weeks.”
Tag: small farms
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O’Neill: Cucumbers and community (column)
On staying cool and coming together during hot and busy times.
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O’Neill: The hardest thing I do on the farm (column)
This week’s column looks at the livestock cycle of life: “I accept the difficult nature of slaughter and the many feelings it engenders as a necessary part of our life journey, but it’s never easy.”
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O’Neill: Getting through the month of Ughust (column)
“August is the hardest month of the year for me, we’ve taken to calling it Ughust here on the farm.”
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O’Neill: Carpentry sore and farming sore (column)
The latest from our farm columnist: “Grandpa was a tradesman and his motto was always ‘Let us be happy in our work.'”