Getting to the print is invigorating, exhausting, time consuming and can make you feel a little bit like a bat and smell a lot like developer. Sometimes it's utter heck to get everything just right. I don't know how many hours I spent in the dark room but it was a lot. I'm guessing I probably easily spent 50 hours there last semester. Which is actually…
So - when I toured Fair Oaks Dairy Adventure that was only the first half of the day! We spent the second half of the day with pigs - and it was awesome! It's pretty taboo for anyone who doesn't work on a pig farm to be able to experience it in commercial hog farms because pigs are so susceptible to biosecurity issues (meaning they can…
It’s that time of year – you guessed it, FFA Week. You may have taken a hint from the seemingly millions of changed profile pictures filled to the brim with people donning the famed corduroy blue jacket. But you may be wondering, why is FFA such a big deal? If you’ve never been a part of the early morning bus rides, enduring all weather extremes in…
Over the past year I have had the privilege of getting to know Jay Hill – a local farmer. He firmly believes that in his operation growth is good, but bigger is not always better. He enjoys a more manageable size because he feels he can focus more on what he grows. Jay informs me that profitability has increased due to the micromanagement of crops. He…
Today I wanted to share a little something about me. I probably shouldn't say little because the importance of my family to me is actually kind of a big deal. A huge deal. We all share certain things just based upon the fact that we're human and I'd like to think we all have loving, crazy families. I usually show my family photo album to new…
also had the opportunity to visit Fair Oaks Farms. I've visited farms before, I've been around dairy's but this - this was fantastically unique. I had visited Fair Oaks in highschool on the way to attnding National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. If I had to describe it - well, let's just say - it's the Disneyland of farms. Yes, I'm being completely serious. I wanted to…
This post is the first of many about my experience at the Ag Chat Collegiate Congress in Indianapolis - and can I just say - It was awesome!!! I met so many new people, made so many connections and learned a TON! So much that my brain still hurts a little bit and I haven't gone through my notes in detail just yet. Yes I took…
This past semester I had the opportunity to take a black and white photography class at NMSU. It's their introduction class as far as photography goes and I really enjoyed it! For those of you that have never developed film or printed in a dark room it's a pretty neat experience and I wanted to share this with you.
When you think of agriculture, hopefully you think of food. Without agriculture we'd be bare, naked and hungry. The land would be bare, we would have no fiber to make clothing out of and we would of course be hungry because there would be no food industry. These are some of the more obvious things that agriculture influences, however much of the time we forget about…
So here’s the deal. I know winter is cold. I get it. I know winter can be cruel. I know that there are tons of things that are very unromantic and dangerous even about winter. But I do love winter. There are small bits of magic privy only to this season. It only snowed one day at my house (which lets face it is actually pretty…
Hi, it's nice to meet you! My name's Lauren. Lover of bad 90's movies, green chile and proud Furbaby Momma.