The Farm - Holistic Health - Yoga
My great grandfather was Preacher Levi Bates. He was married to Elizabeth “Lizzie” McKibben Bates. They had 8 children. My grandmother, my mother’s mother, was one of them. Paw Paw Bates, as we called him, lived until I was 11 years old, so I have fond memories of him and remember him very well. I’ve heard lots of stories about…
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Growing up, I considered myself pretty normal except I was more in to drawing and making crafts than outside playing softball or other sports like my friends. Right before I turned 9, we moved to the country from Cobb County. I had just participated in softball tryouts with my cousin Aprile and to be honest, part of me let out…
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I never thought my next blog would be about a loss on our farm so quickly. We planned and researched for over a year on kunekunes and how to care for them as well as how to prepare our farm (fencing, housing, etc.) for their arrival. We had anticipated the day they would arrive for months. Most of the days…
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Tomorrow will make exactly one week that we’ve had our kunekune piglets and what a week it has been! As I’ve said before, my husband is an exceptional researcher and doesn’t rush into anything important like something such as this. But, what we’ve learned in the past week could never have been Googled. We made the trip down to Ramer,…
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My brother jokes that Blake and I should write a book on how to start a farm without any tools or a truck. And that’s pretty accurate. We own a hammer, a few screwdrivers, a couple of wrenches and nails. Pretty much that’s all. So when we started working on getting our land ready for farm animals and putting up…
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Well, a few weeks ago I embarked on eating a strictly plant based diet. I didn’t get very far. I made it to I believe Day 5 and things started falling apart. Not falling apart in that I just quit eating my plant based diet (I am a lacto-vegetarian primarily with not much lacto involved) but that I got extremely…
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