Showing posts with label truth or dairy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth or dairy. Show all posts

Friday, December 11, 2020

Ten year anniversary of Truth or Dairy



Oh my goodness...ten years ago I said to Kris, "I think I'm going to start a blog." He was supportive of me doing what I wanted, as long as he wasn't the subject. Blogs had been super popular for awhile, I read lots of them, but since I had a two-month-old baby, two three-year-old twins, and just one freelance writing job, I felt like I had some extra time on my hands.

Honestly, I just really wanted to share what was going on. We were three years into farming, and I wanted to share with my family and my community. It's turned into a large community! 

Ten years later, here I still am, and here we still are! I also post a lot on Facebook, Instagram, and even YouTube, if you'd like to check those out.

In these ten years, we've built barns, increased our herd, poured a lot of cement for feed pads, built a lagoon, and also ... done a lot with agricultural organizations, boards, and other farmers. So much! Looking back, it's been a great decade. 

This year was terrible in so many ways, yet on the farm, everything plugged away like mostly-normal. We are so sad about all the awful things going on around us, so many people suffering, and so many businesses being forced to close by uneven policies. We really feel for our fellow business owners. I truly hope that people wake up in 2021. 

This morning I walked over to see the work on the barn project, and Kris was looking at it too. I wanted to take his picture, and he didn't want me to do it. Some things never change.



As always, thank you for reading.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Faces of Agriculture

Elizabeth Martin and Jamie Rhoades started a new blog called 'Faces of Agriculture.'  They aim to show "the human side of farming and ranching beyond the machines and science." 

They started two weeks ago and already have great stories and pictures from two different ranches in Texas, a ranch in South Dakota, and now us!

You can check out the feature here: Truth or Dairy with Kris and Carla Wardin

Funny thing ... they asked me to submit pictures of us on our farm.  I have seven million of Kris and the boys, but could not find even one of me on the farm.  But now, my sons are so old (five last week) they can take pictures!  Here is Cole's first photo contribution to the blog. 

Monday, May 7, 2012

Spell it out

This weekend, I had a booth promoting dairy health at the Clinton County Fit Fest.

We handed out at lot of string cheese and milk moustaches.  The moustaches were wildly popular, especially. 

At one point, both the 2012 Michigan Dairy Ambassador Britney Zondlak and the newly crowned Elsie Dairy Festival Little Miss Grace Leavitt were there at the same time!  It was like the Avengers of dairy knowledge.



 Go ahead, ASK US A DAIRY QUESTION! 

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We're up to 16 heifer calves.  They're across the road from us now.  It was rainy tonight, so I used binoculars to watch a cow labor from my dry living room.  She turned her back to me right before she had it.  It wasn't that great of a view anyway.

I knew Kris hadn't pulled any yet this season, so I asked him - how many had he seen give birth?  Also zero!  I guess I should be happy they're coming easily!

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Last week I was talking about how my sister Tracy uses my blog as a teaching tool in her Kansas classroom.

She and her wonderful students sent me a fantastic surprise!  Check out her seventh grade communication arts kids!




Truth or Dairy. Communication and art. A+ for all of them!