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5 Steps to Schedule Your Homeschool Year
So call me a nerd, but preparing our homeschool schedule for the year is one of my favorite things to do! Maybe it's the new year full of possibilities. Maybe it's because I know how much of a sanity saver it will be for me once it is complete. Either way, I look...
Record Keeping on the Farm
While it may not be the most enjoyable part of farming, good record keeping on the farm is necessary, important, and extremely helpful. I was asked to train on this topic several years ago for a beginning farmer class, so thought it may be beneficial to share here as...
Alfalfa Seed Pollination
Pollination is one of the most important parts of raising alfalfa seed. Without pollination, there would be no seed to harvest. As soon as there are blooms on the alfalfa plants, it is time to put our pollinators to work. We use leafcutter bees for...
Homeschooling with a Toddler
When I first started my blog almost 5 years ago, we knew we would be homeschooling our children. I also knew that some of our homeschooling days would take place in the tractor. That's why I came up with the name Teaching From the Tractor. I also thought that name...
2018 & 2019 Crop Years
I still can't believe it has been over 2 years since my last post! I apologize for my absence and wanted to give you an update on what we have been up to since my last post in 2017. The 2018 & 2019 crop years have been crazy to say the least, but I guess that's...
2017 Crops
Now that the crop year is nearly complete, I am FINALLY going to do a post about our 2017 crops! 🙂 Every year I am amazed at how quickly the time goes by! It feels like we were just planting the crops last week, yet here we are almost done with harvest! This year we...
2016 Harvest
So I may be a couple months late, 🙂 but I wanted to share our 2016 harvest videos and pictures! Barley Harvest Below are a couple photos of our 2016 barley harvest, the first crop we harvested. Click here to learn more about our barley harvest. Alfalfa...
2016 Crop Update
Seriously! Where does the time go?!? It feels like I was just posting about planting our crops, and here we are getting ready to start barley harvest! Our crops have grown a lot since my last post, so I wanted to do a 2016 crop update before we get busy with...
2016 Crops
Wow!! I can't believe that summer is almost here! It seems like it was just yesterday we started working the ground, even though that was really 3 months ago. We were able to get started in the fields pretty early this year, which made planting go pretty...
Farm Winter Recap
Now that spring is well underway, I thought it was time to do a farm winter recap. Winter is by far our slowest season. Our crops are all harvested and the ground is frozen. We won’t be able to get back into the fields until the very end of winter, or the...
Drain Tile Installation
Wow! I can't believe it is Spring already!! I had all these great post ideas I wanted to do this winter, and now winter is over and I have a lot of catching up to do. The fields thawed out early this year and we have already finished the field work. We've even...
Sugar Beet Harvest
Sugar beet harvest was our final harvest for the 2015 crop year. We finished harvesting our sugar beets the last week in October, then went to Colorado to help our family finish theirs. It's always a great feeling to be done with harvest! it also makes me kind of sad...
