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Oct 07 2012
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Farm Project: September

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Blog: Farm Project - Sep1

September is a very busy month on the farm. Between finishing up harvest, hauling bales, making silage, harrowing fields, selling cattle, cleaning pens, starting on fall projects, getting the kids back to school and bringing in vegetables from the garden, there was quite a bit to capture on camera! Elaine and I are only able to go out for the occasional weekend, so we would have missed a lot. Thankfully, our family chipped in by taking photos when we couldn’t be there. As a result, this blog post is going to be filled to the brim with farm imagery.
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Oct 01 2012
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Farm Project: the family

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Farm Project: the family

Meet the family behind our farm project! From left to right, Dad, Mom, Gordon, Warren, Nicole and their three kids, Ian, Erin and Dion. Three generations (the generation before has passed on). I am continually grateful that my two brothers chose farming as their livelihood, and that Warren found his wonderful wife Nicole to share life on the farm with him.
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Jul 31 2012
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Farm Project: July

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This past weekend, my sister Elaine and I were out at the farm again to take photographs. My brothers were busy with swathing (barley and rye) as well as baling hay. Combining started this week so that will be the next thing that we take photos of. All told, they have 1,100 acres to harvest, as well as 275 acres of hay to bale. The rest of their land is pasture, and it supports somewhere around 300-350 grassers (Warren’s) as well as a 120-130 head cow herd (Gordie’s). According to my dad, the crops are suffering from the extended heat wave and yields are expected to be down.
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Jul 02 2012
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Farm Project: June

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I have to confess, I didn’t participate very much in the June installment of our farm project. It happened to coincide with a camping trip so although I was in the area, I wasn’t in the mood to get out of camping mode. Thankfully, my sister Elaine picked up the slack, and followed my brothers around with her camera. There are her photos and this blog post is mostly based on her notes to me (my apologies if it’s a bit short and lacking detail as a result).
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