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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

And, you have said you have a greenhouse.  Do you have any fresh vegetabhles 
that grow inside the greenhouse through your very cold winters, or, is it 
just to keep plants 'alive', so that they will produce in the spring? 

Animal husbandry , even on the small commercial scale, is quite a feat for 
one person, I would think...............

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--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] cattle farming  was  ???
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:13 PM
> > Wow, there is more do do in the winter, for a cattle
> farmer, than watching 
> > the woodstove.  That was a great story, Lynn.  Like
> Bev, I would like to 
> > see a youtube of such.  stay warm..................
> >
> I never know what I'll be doing on any given
> day...resuscitating an animal, 
> pulling an animal out of the mud, fixing a fence, checking
> to see who is 
> bellowing at 2am and why (last time it was apparently just
> for the heck of 
> it...I didn't see any problem, but I have to check and
> make sure). Any kind 
> of emergency can take hours to deal with.
> 
> I don't do youtube. Except for the internet connection,
> this farm is quickly 
> devolving.  No cell phone, video camera, etc. etc. I double
> dig instead of 
> using the tiller. I'm giving up the gas mower for a
> scythe, and I'd get rid 
> of the tractor if I didn't need it to move hay bales
> (the tractor is over 50 
> years old and driving me crazy...it can take 15-20 minutes
> to get it 
> started...check this, clean that, charge the battery, etc;
> if the temp is 
> below about 10 degrees, it isn't going to start no
> matter what I do). I very 
> much prefer doing things by hand to fighting with a gas
> engine or some 
> high-tech thing.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA 
> 
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