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Healing While Working: This Winter Doesn’t Care...
Sprained ankle, sprained wrist, pulled shoulder muscle. Snow past my knees. Tractor down. –40 °C wind chill. Still cutting firewood, forking manure, trucking water. Healing while working — because the...
Healing While Working: This Winter Doesn’t Care...
Sprained ankle, sprained wrist, pulled shoulder muscle. Snow past my knees. Tractor down. –40 °C wind chill. Still cutting firewood, forking manure, trucking water. Healing while working — because the...
This Winter is Trying to Kill Us - And It's Not...
Snow every day, –25 °C wind, trucking water daily, moving manure by hand, equipment that won’t start. This winter is brutal — and it’s not even winter yet.
This Winter is Trying to Kill Us - And It's Not...
Snow every day, –25 °C wind, trucking water daily, moving manure by hand, equipment that won’t start. This winter is brutal — and it’s not even winter yet.
The Manure Mountain: Three Cows, One Pitchfork,...
Three dairy cows = tons of manure moved by hand. Spreader's frozen, so we’re building a mountain beside the barn to move again in spring. This is the real ranch...
The Manure Mountain: Three Cows, One Pitchfork,...
Three dairy cows = tons of manure moved by hand. Spreader's frozen, so we’re building a mountain beside the barn to move again in spring. This is the real ranch...
When the Barn Pipe Freezes and Doesn’t Care Tha...
For seven days I’ve been trucking water in the old pickup and carrying pails to the chickens and pigs. The temperature is –1 °C and the barn pipe is still...
When the Barn Pipe Freezes and Doesn’t Care Tha...
For seven days I’ve been trucking water in the old pickup and carrying pails to the chickens and pigs. The temperature is –1 °C and the barn pipe is still...
12 °C Inside the House (And Why That’s Normal H...
The house is 12 °C right now. I’m wearing three hoodies to type this. Outside it’s –25 °C. The barn has propane heaters. The cows have extra hay. The humans...
12 °C Inside the House (And Why That’s Normal H...
The house is 12 °C right now. I’m wearing three hoodies to type this. Outside it’s –25 °C. The barn has propane heaters. The cows have extra hay. The humans...
-30°C Reality: Why Our Beef Costs More (And Why...
Outside it’s –25 °C real, –33 °C wind chill. Stock tanks frozen. Barn pipes frozen. The 2003 F-150 is plugged in to haul water if the heat tape doesn't work....
-30°C Reality: Why Our Beef Costs More (And Why...
Outside it’s –25 °C real, –33 °C wind chill. Stock tanks frozen. Barn pipes frozen. The 2003 F-150 is plugged in to haul water if the heat tape doesn't work....