Pastor Dave
Herd Master
Welcome from Indiana!
As a kid my Dad moved us to W. Central Tenn. We lived there abt two years and moved back to Indiana. Been here ever since. I keep telling my wife I would like to have some milk goats and raise up some of the young for meat. She thinks I want to get out of ministry and start farming. It does sound like a nice less stressful change of pace, but then I realize every vocation has its own set of troubles and trials.
I live on church property and raise meat rabbits. I have abt a half to one acre behind the parsonage and shed to use as a hay field. I used a feed plot mix and mow and bale clover/timothy/ and some wild flower and grasses. Actually I have one of my congregation mow and bale, and I help him on his other fields. It is a good trade-off.
It is not anywhere near the scale I grew up with, but after twenty years I realized you can take the boy off the farm, but you CANNOT take the farm out of the boy.
Good luck in your goats and trading endeavors.
As a kid my Dad moved us to W. Central Tenn. We lived there abt two years and moved back to Indiana. Been here ever since. I keep telling my wife I would like to have some milk goats and raise up some of the young for meat. She thinks I want to get out of ministry and start farming. It does sound like a nice less stressful change of pace, but then I realize every vocation has its own set of troubles and trials.
I live on church property and raise meat rabbits. I have abt a half to one acre behind the parsonage and shed to use as a hay field. I used a feed plot mix and mow and bale clover/timothy/ and some wild flower and grasses. Actually I have one of my congregation mow and bale, and I help him on his other fields. It is a good trade-off.
It is not anywhere near the scale I grew up with, but after twenty years I realized you can take the boy off the farm, but you CANNOT take the farm out of the boy.
Good luck in your goats and trading endeavors.