Who are these Farm Mums?

I’m Emma, also 33 and UK Farm Mum of Elizabeth who is 2. I am wife to Gerald the farmer and we live on a 300 acre farm in Culcheth, near Warrington in North West of England (about half way between Manchester and Liverpool).

We had about 300 cows which my husband reared for beef but we are down to 70 now and looking into diversifying into other areas. We have 300 sheep and I too have forayed into the chicken keeping but what with fox attacks, my chicken breeding programme has been put on hold and I am now just keeping them, like Katie, for the family (once you have fresh eggs it is hard to go back to the anaemic shop bought ones).

My husband makes haylage and silage for feed and bales other people’s straw for bedding for the winter.

I work two days a week as the features editor of a religious newspaper, oh and, despite many pleas for conversion, I am a vegetarian-no cow goes past my lips-you can imagine the heated discussions in our house.

The Gorky’s and Lander’s are two households on opposite sides of the Atlantic, both trying to earn a living and have a wonderful life in this unpredictable world of farming.

 

Who are these Farm Moms?

I'm Katie, 33, the NY Farm Mom of two boys; Joey 11 and George 2.  Also wife to Wayne--the farmer:)  We live on our dairy and grain farm in the Town of Stillwater, just off Saratoga Lake in scenic upstate New York, 180 miles north of Times Square in New York City.  

We milk 60 cows, raise our heifers for milking and steers for beef.  We grow about 500 acres of corn, 300 of hay and about 100 of soybeans (I'm sure I will be corrected on these numbers..."it's really 534 except that wet piece....":-) I also think our acres are different thank UK acres...I'll be on google later.)We make all our own feed for our animals, only outsourcing minerals.  It's nice to know just what is going into our animals.  We also make some custom grain mixes for a few other small farmers.  This year we've started on chickens as well, but mostly just for the family at this point, we're up to 19 hens.  

I'm the granddaughter of Mack Naughton, Emma's Great Uncle:)