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Re: [Market-farming] time management for off-farm jobs
- From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] time management for off-farm jobs
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:23:40 -0400
Generally, livestock production is much
less labor intensive than vegetable production. Plant to beds to pasture, let
the animals graze. Beth Spaugh http://rhomestead.com
facebook/rhomestead "How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the
world is used." - Wendell Berry "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is
empty." - Frances Moore Lappe From:
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of KAKerby AT aol.com Hey all, our time at market this year has
come and gone. We just didn't earn quite enough per week to stay through
the season, and our spring was so late we didn't get enough into the ground to
really try to switch over to other marketing options mid-season. So yours
truly is headed back to off-farm work. (insert sound of heavy sigh here) I was very fortunate in my previous
corporate job that I was able to work from home. So I set things up here
with the assumption that I'd be here to make the most of breaks in the weather,
deliver unexpected livestock young-uns, and otherwise be immediately available
even when I was "on the clock". Now, however, finances and
hiring conditions dictate that I commute at least 45 minutes in each
direction. The money will be nice (that's how we're going to pay for our
Farmall C), but I find myself wondering how I'm going to juggle the time
management aspect of things. We've sold off the livestock that
would be easy to replace later But we still have a lot of animals here
that I have deemed too valuable to offload for what is hopefully a short-term
situation. And of course we have planting bed management to consider,
even if things go fallow well into next year. I'm also fretting
about time spent on morning and evening chores, storm response and basics
like winter housing that won't require my monitoring for things like frozen
water, wind chill, etc. For those of you in similar positions, or
who had similar situations, what did you do that really made the
difference? Any mistakes you made that you'd suggest I avoid?
Any "a-ha" moments that you'd care to share about juggling farm
work and off-farm office work? Thanks in advance...... Kathryn Kerby frogchorusfarm.com Ruminations - essays on the farming life
at frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html |
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[Market-farming] time management for off-farm jobs,
KAKerby, 07/16/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] time management for off-farm jobs, Beth Spaugh, 07/16/2011
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