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Just a Few Acres is a 45 acre seventh generation family farm in Lansing, NY, in operation since 1804. We are a diversified livestock farm, providing high quality, healthy meats directly to consumers in our community. All our livestock is grown using a grass-based diet, and we focus on a low-stress life for our animals. We operate our farm using sustainable practices, building healthier soil every year through innovative grazing methods. We believe a small family farm can still be a viable business in today’s “bigger is better” world, and that small farms supplying locally grown food to their communities can create a more resilient, healthy, and meaningful agricultural system.
This is my first time watching your video. I heard about you from Farmer Tyler Ranch. He mentions you from time to time so I thought I’d check out your video. I enjoyed it. And the thing you mentioned about allowing the land to rest is Biblical. I enjoyed your video so I subscribed.
tomotillas oh i got a bunch one year and made smoked salsa verde, very easy to do and i sold 20 per quart.fill the pot with cut up toms a few white onions and one pineapple you can use liquid smoke or if you want to roast any of onion or toms. but i did many types of fruits pineapple or peach or rsted chili, however i did they all were delicious
We leave our cattle on the range all winter and then feed them hay and cake. We need heat makers so they’ll winter through okay. They’re bred for our harsh winters which can go to 45 below and sometimes even colder. The coldest I’ve seen here was 60 below, not real common but 40+ below is common. Seems we always get a blizzard around calving time in March and April. We keep our heifers close by in case we need to get the OB chains which is rare as they’re bred for ease of calving. We used to feed calves but now we sell in October and keep some replacement heifers. We brand in June before the calves get too big. We use a calf table now but we used to heel them using horses which was faster but we don’t have horse anymore except for pleasure riding. All the best and I think you have it figured out plumb good.
Thank you, Pete and Hillarie from Nova Scotia, Great summer here so far for mowing, planting and raising Honey bees. We get the same intense rain you people had pass through.
so smart to plant on top of the compost pile. I threw some cantaloupe rinds on top of my compost on year and the seeds sprouted. I had the sweetest, tastiest cantaloupes I have ever tasted. I didn't need to weed or water them. They were amazing. I had forgotten all about that, until I saw your video, and you are right. We should be planting pumpkins and cantaloupe on our compost piles. Love your videos
Thank you Pete for the information. I've learned more in this video than I do at school for one day. As an avid gardener I will put this information to good use.
Hey Pete, what did the one light says to the other light?......Let's go out tonight. What did the one wall say to the other wall/... meet you at the corner!!!!
Pete, I'd love for you to consider adding a used 3pt hitch wood chipper to the farm. We use ours all the time. The wood chip are so useful (bedding, garden mulch, etc) and would be much less hauling for ya (what doesn't go through the chipper, goes through the stove).
I am still hanging out at my dads and today we took inventory of his freezer…low and behold he has a huge pkg of chicken wings! I’m going to try your bbq method….and butter and red hot! Yum! Thanks Pete!
There is about 770 million acres of rangeland in the United States. about 30 percent of all land. rangeland = pasture. There is about 879 million acres of farmland in the United States. about 35 percent of all land. There is about 80 million acres of buildings, roads, cities, parking lots, etc. in the United States. about 3 percent of all land. For the United States to produce 100 percent of electricity from solar PV's about 14 million acres are needed. Some of that electricity in places where there is farmland will come from farmland. But much of the electricity from solar PV's will be on rangeland. Much of the 14 million acres of solar PV's will be built on top of parking lots. (There will be a lot of solar PV's in California on the top of parking lots and the DC electricity can charge electric vehicles from DC charging.) Some of the solar PV's will be on top of buildings. (If those buildings that can have solar PV's on their roofs did so, that would be about 38 percent of that 14 million acres) some in deserts.
Put a loader on the 856,put the 656 on the back burner for now,then get to work on the 504 and sell it to your neighbor and wait until the new shop is built to work on the 656,then workon the 856in the new shop,the smaller issues could go in the old shop and save the big stuff for the new shop!
Don’t forget the freeze thaw cycle in aeration of the soil. Frost heave can really lift soil, in essence aerating it. Plant roots also create channels in the soil when they die. Great video on natural cattle farming.
