I drove home this morning, so after unpacking and the like, didn’t have too much time for farming, other than taking a walk around the farm with Linda looking at it with slightly new eyes, finishing the household composter, and getting a small load of mulch from the pallet plant.
I tired of driving on the interstate on the way home, so I got off at hwy 20 and started zipping south and east on county roads for diversion. I was really struck with two things – all the hog confinements and the rural poverty. I don’t know if it just looks worse in this brown season – or if it was the contrast between the overflowing life of the conference attendees and their hope for a self-directed future and the run-down and abandoned farmsteads. It made me sad that forces have run so many off the land and that an alternative exists that many have yet to try/are unable to try.
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High Hopes Gardens,
I’m also growing tired of interstate driving. You don’t notice the beauty of the land when moving so fast. Then again, it’s easier to ignore the sad truths plaguing Iowa today.
It’s so sad to see farmsteads that were thriving twenty years ago decaying all around. Hog lots are too expensive for farmers and it sure seems like nobody’s coming out ahead. It’s strange what economics is doing to the heartland and I hope it changes soon. I look forward to reading more of your blog. Peas, RN
That’s a fancy dancy composter! Are the middle slats removable? Do the end walls move?
I’ve been collecting pallets to make my composter, I still have 3 more to go!! In the meantime, we’re just piling the composting stuff by the chicken coop and put chicken wire to keep the critters from getting in!! I’d rather have one like yours…
yes, there are removable cedar slats in the middle and each side is removable – see the detail on the february 11 on the animal composter for the attachment detail – just electrical conduit and eye bolts!