Wisconsin Life

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>> How're you doin'? I'm here to give you the crop report. The bad news probably is just that I'm not really home enough to do this right. But the real bad news is that I was up north just yesterday visiting my brother. He's a real farmer. He's got one of them big, green tractors and about 700 acres of dirt he takes care of. And he says it's been a real tough spring. Because it's been so cold and unsettled, nothings really takin' off. Things are kinda hangin' in stasis and not gettin' very tall. I wish that that were the reason that my stuff looks like it looks like. But my stuff often looks like this no matter what the spring's been like. Our main thing here is to try to get some of this land back and producing food for our little batch animals. This field here is basically pig salad. Every few days we just bring the pigs a little further into this patch here. They'll till this all up and they'll harass the quack a little bit, and they'll fertilize it. They get fresh garden greens and they get fresh dirt to dig in. So it's great way to get this field back and runnin'. By the time they get down to the end of this patch this plant right here will be about ten feet tall, and there'll be all these little nuggets of nutrition down in the dirt. It's like the piggy version of finding the prize at the bottom of a box of Cracker Jacks.

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But we do what we can here. And I'm always happy. I mean, I was never happier then this winter when the girls and I would go down and we'd shell out some of that puny corn that we grew last year, but it was our corn! And we fed it to our chickens and got nice eggs from it. You know, the key with us is we set the bar low. That way we got a pretty good chance of winding up happy.

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