Bayvistafarm--Shirley
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:53 pm
Yup.. new to this site!! Love it too.
For the ones that don't know me... we (hubby and I) own a 150 acre farm in West Flamboro... settled by his ancestors in 1817. Our grandkids are the 9th generation on the farm. (Well.. Sawyer lives on the farm, son Daves boy). In 2017 the farm will be 200 years old! Together we have 5 children, and 4 grandchildren, with a new baby due July 2016!!!!
We also farm another 300 acres... and grow corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay as cash crops, as well as feed for the 45 beef/cow/calf/finishers.
Husband drives a snowplow contracted thru the 'town' with Millers Maintenance and I drive a school bus. Farming really doesn't pay the bills. We are too small a farm to make bigass money, thus do it because no one else knows how to do anything else, lol.
We have 4 horses, a few rabbits, barn cats/house cats... a dog.. some goldfish, and my hobby.. scads of turkeys, guinea fowl, and a few different heritage breed chickens.. as well as breeding some very nice looking and laying mutts!!
I also have a bee hive... got into the hobby a few years back, but lost some hives along the way. Never had more than 3... and one starved out last winter. (That was my bee partners fault.. took too much honey off in August 2014).
I have a huge garden, and love to pickle and freeze produce. I also like to bake.. when I can find the time. Reading is also a huge hobby, but only get to do that when I hit the hay!
Every one of my birds came thru people on the former PSO... and now PTO. We can and do help each other with our addictions very well!!
For the ones that don't know me... we (hubby and I) own a 150 acre farm in West Flamboro... settled by his ancestors in 1817. Our grandkids are the 9th generation on the farm. (Well.. Sawyer lives on the farm, son Daves boy). In 2017 the farm will be 200 years old! Together we have 5 children, and 4 grandchildren, with a new baby due July 2016!!!!
We also farm another 300 acres... and grow corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay as cash crops, as well as feed for the 45 beef/cow/calf/finishers.
Husband drives a snowplow contracted thru the 'town' with Millers Maintenance and I drive a school bus. Farming really doesn't pay the bills. We are too small a farm to make bigass money, thus do it because no one else knows how to do anything else, lol.
We have 4 horses, a few rabbits, barn cats/house cats... a dog.. some goldfish, and my hobby.. scads of turkeys, guinea fowl, and a few different heritage breed chickens.. as well as breeding some very nice looking and laying mutts!!
I also have a bee hive... got into the hobby a few years back, but lost some hives along the way. Never had more than 3... and one starved out last winter. (That was my bee partners fault.. took too much honey off in August 2014).
I have a huge garden, and love to pickle and freeze produce. I also like to bake.. when I can find the time. Reading is also a huge hobby, but only get to do that when I hit the hay!
Every one of my birds came thru people on the former PSO... and now PTO. We can and do help each other with our addictions very well!!
LOL some days i seriously think our hubby's will find us wrapped around a tree somewhere at the bottom of one of those hill....if any of you know the expression truckers use "let it run"....LOL