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Garden Planning

January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 Mandi Musick

Last fall I came across a yearly planner that was designed for homesteaders by a homesteader. I didn't spend too much time learning about it before pre-ordering it, I just felt an undeniable urging to have it for 2022. And now just a handful of days into the new year I'm thrilled with my impromptu… Continue reading Garden Planning

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Generational Farm Life

January 7, 2022January 7, 2022 Mandi Musick

Year's ago when I fell in love with Tom, I also fell in love with his family's farm & land. Now it wasn't love at first sight in either of these things but if you know our story you already know how it all started. Over the years we've collected photos and relics from the… Continue reading Generational Farm Life

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Day 1…on Christ the Solid Rock I stand

March 22, 2020 Mandi Musick

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:3 NIV STAY HOME... That was our state's governor's order a couple days ago. Let's be honest there was no twisting of my arm at… Continue reading Day 1…on Christ the Solid Rock I stand

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Blackbirds and Snow Days

February 9, 2020February 9, 2020 Mandi Musick

Over the Christmas holiday I had time to read a couple books. One in particular I randomly purchased because honestly it just would not stop showing up in my feed on Instagram. I did zero research prior to purchasing but it was worth every penny in my opinion. This book touched my soul in a… Continue reading Blackbirds and Snow Days

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Super Sunday

February 2, 2020 Mandi Musick

HELLO FEBRUARY Whew y'all....what a crazy start to 2020. January always feels like THE longest month of the entire year. This new decade kept that streak going. Anyone else also feel like time stops moving during those first 31 days? I have very few hours at my disposal to be active on the Farm right… Continue reading Super Sunday

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The days are long, hot and dry but we’ve been busy making hay because that’s what you do while the sun is shining this time of year. Hoses are strung out across the yard to help keep the garden & flower beds watered. The chickens spend most of their day under the shade of the cattle trailer parked by the barn. The livestock are getting relief by wading in the creeks that still thankfully have a little water left in them. I’ve been combing through old farm records that date back to over 100 years ago when Tom’s family was raising crops and animals, farming and homesteading here in little ol Solomon just as we are today. I can’t help but smile thinking of the legacy we are carrying on together 🖤
We’ll be adding water-glassing eggs to our Summer activities this year. 🖤
Crops & garden are all in, PTL and replanting is done in any areas where needed. Got some hay rolled up, working through some post spraying before we move on to side dressing corn and of course more hay. Tonight we start sorting cattle for market.
Farm to Table ~ It’s grilling season and luckily raising our own beef means we have a good supply of steaks on hand. Here’s a good example showing the contrasts when cattle are raised & finished differently. The Ribeye on the left came from a steer, raised on pasture with a diet primarily of hay and wet corn gluten by-product. He ran our pastures at his will and was finished out with just a few days of grain before butchering a couple months ago. The Ribeye on the right came from a heifer, a blind one at that. Because of her blindness she was needed to be more confined, fed mostly grains & hay until she was butchered last year. She was FAT but her marbling and texture resembles Wagyu beef. Either way they are both absolutely scrumptious 🥩
She loved lilacs, reading, gardening, rocking babies, being ornery and laughing. Growing up she just lived the next farm over from ours and we spent so much time together. She’s the reason I love Juicy Fruit gum, ham salad sandwiches, sweet tea and Texas sheet cake. I can always hear her voice singing ‘Oh how I love Jesus’. My heart grieved for her hard years ago when a horrible disease starting stealing her memories. I think today she would have been so happy looking down to see her family together & full of laughter after laying her physical body to rest next to Grandpa. She had saved this note I wrote to her decades ago and I thought it was too cute not to share. 🖤
Heard a familiar noise in the barn earlier this week and found one lonely chick wandering around. After waiting a few days to see if any more appeared I decided to run to the feed store and get this little one a companion yesterday and walked out with 5. Tom’s exact words “Man, that chicken math is crazy” 🖤

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