Advice, insight, and reflections from a real local farmer.
Agritourism is when a production farm attracts and invites public guests to the farm for a fee in exchange for an experience and/or farm fresh goods. Agritourism is a fairly new, wonderful income generator for family farms and provides a much needed service to the general public that has become disconnected from the source of…
My recent back injury stopped me in my tracks and gave me the chance to ask a lot of questions about my opportunities, endeavors, and blessings. The Way We See It Unintentionally, our blessings are often quantified by an evaluation our physical conditions (bodily or environmentally). After all, no matter where we go, there we…
I was born a Dairyman’s Daughter because there was a time when being a Dairyman actually earned a living (What?!) for a farmer engaged in the business of milking cows. (What!? I know, right.) I have recently been enjoying milking goats down on the farm….
#knowyourlocalfarmer…Who is your local farmer? WE ARE! Food tastes better when you know who grew it. OUR FAMILY is proud to locally grow food for YOUR FAMILY. Here’s some of our Family Story.…..
What is your definition of “engage”?
The last few days have certainly not felt like or looked like fall. But down on the farm the sounds of “kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk” across the barnyard as acorns bounce off of every roof, truck, and bucket are an assurance that at least it is beginning to sound like fall in the Ozarks. While we…
Can farm families go on vacation? Do they even want to? A couple of weekends ago our family took one last short trip to celebrate the end of summer 2022. Our trip to the Nebraska State Fair is on its way to becoming a current family tradition. Step 2: Choosing a Destination My point of…
Back To School: everybody is doing it. Everyone falls into a Back to School category: we still have kids that go, the grandkids won’t be around as much, the scroll on our social feeds are about to go from being filled with vacation at the pool to student activities, home office entrepreneurs will enjoy peace…
We only had one dog growing up so I did not have much experience when Mark started talking about getting a family canine. And I didn’t realize how much our family would change for the better that day in 2010 when I met those little girls outside a grocery store in Seymour peddling free puppies….
CopperTop Legacy Farm is excited to now offer retail cuts of locally raised beef for sale at Turners Station Mercantile and Deli – just six minutes east of Springfield, Missouri. These high-quality meats are sold directly to shoppers in our community in an effort to support the local economy. Buy local meat by the pound…