Tag: barn in the midwest

• A Jigsaw Farm with a Plan

  

  At this time of year all farmers in this hemisphere are shuffling animals into their winter pens, arranging their outside access. Dragging out the heated water bowls, stopping up drafts, creating an extra feed pile in case we get snowed in, checking the generator and finding the heating lamps. We always prepare for the most extreme weather.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  November 16, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  barn in the midwest, old barns, preparing for winter

• Across the way

  

  There is a family barn across the way (in fact I call it The Barn Across The Way) that has been rented out for many years and has just come back to the family.  Yesterday actually. And now (she says with a big grin) it is OURS. I want to write MINE (because I am the farmer…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 5, 2014

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  barn in the midwest, crib, old barn fittings, old barns