Where to start.
I wanted to blog about the two wild boars we saw scavenging in the cornfields. Or maybe write about the two coyotes the iFarmer saw south of Indy and just east of Indy.
But the best was, no surprise, at The Farm.
We only spent a couple hours at The Farm to pick up the kidlets, but we had a blast. We got there just in time to see the broiler chicks moving to their new movable pen outside so they can begin their corn/grass-fed short lives.
Then…I got a tractor driving lesson. So freaking cool. I thought I’d just take it a few laps around the yard.
But I had the pleasure of mowing down the barley cover crop over by the strawberries…which by the way…look to be in excellent position to produce some plump yummy berries this year. I can already taste the strawberry rhubarb pie.
Oh…and while we were enjoying lunch I noticed that our tenant farmer had been busy, planting corn this year. Or, as Hoosier Outsider likes to call it, the ethanol patch.
Virtual Farmgirl 
I too got my first tractor lesson, around the end of March. I planted my first field, a neighbor’s 2 acres of oats (and a wee patch on my land). They have sprouted and we even got some spring runoff irrigation on them. They are looking just fine. My sheep discovered my patch today, Uh oh! I have such tractor envy. I have been searching for a tractor for about 18 mos and have not yet found just what I want in the price range I am willing to go into debt for. I am thinking of about $25K Uh!But if I had a tractor, I would have so many more acres planted and things to sprout.
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I too got my first tractor lesson, around the end of March. I planted my first field, a neighbor’s 2 acres of oats (and a wee patch on my land). They have sprouted and we even got some spring runoff irrigation on them. They are looking just fine. My sheep discovered my patch today, Uh oh! I have such tractor envy. I have been searching for a tractor for about 18 mos and have not yet found just what I want in the price range I am willing to go into debt for. I am thinking of about $25K Uh!But if I had a tractor, I would have so many more acres planted and things to sprout.
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