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We talked about soups in the winter, what about salads. What is your favorite? What do you put in it. I make a mean potato salad. My wife cooks almost everything else!

I, for one, would love to stop wearing my mask. I don't want it to be the new normal. I do struggle breathing when I'm wearing one. I have bad allergies and my nose is plugged often. I do hope that we can stop wearing them soon.

I'll bite, tell me more please. What kind of technology would we buy that would help replace equipment? Or should I say do better than new equipment? I'm always trying to learn new things.

I'm pretty excited! We've picked up the business of another not so local winery. They heard we bought more fields and reached out to us. They want to have some input into which variety of grapes we plant. It's like a partnership of sorts.

It has been a soggy mess here for about a week. I love the rain and it is helping the soil in our communal garden. Anyone else getting a lot of rain?

We have been watching the prices for over a year. I think they will continue to rise for a while. The price of gas is getting crazy high here and that drives up the price of everything! Gas prices will continue to rise because the pipeline business is getting a kick in the pants from our Government!

Very interesting, it is the first time I noticed it. I have been paying more attention to local farms since I joined this group. I'm going to keep my eyes open to see if other farms have them too.

@RichZ - that makes sense now. A fence around the garden plot. We have a large garden and have the same issues. Maybe we should switch to chicken wire. The varmints still get in through our fence.

What! No, this is the first I have heard of it. I don't have farm animals but I would be protecting them if I did. What in the world are people doing, stealing ducks!

Sweet! I will definitely look into this! I think all of us crop farmers should look into anything new coming out (that helps us). It's nice to see that there are more grants/monies being available for farming.

Oh that is horrible! People just have no respect for other people's property. I would definitely put up cameras just in case this happens again. At least you would know where to go to deal with the damage.

I was driving by a farm this morning and I saw a cow rubbing his back on this round brush like apparatus. It was attached to the outside of the barn. Is this a normal thing to have?

I've been a hunter for years so I do have guns. I've got shotguns and pistols. I have a couple of 9mm and a 457 pistol. I don't like AR-57 rifles either. I have no use for these.

We have several fields and yes we have workers too. There is too much work to be done by just us. We have the new field all ready to go. We put up the new fencing last weekend.

I love auctions too. We go to two big tool/equipment auctions each year. We also go to a flower/plant auction in the spring. I see nothing wrong with buying items at either.

We are letting people have their own section and we also have a big section for anyone. We are kind of new to this so we will see how it goes. It's kind of like we are giving back to our community.

Ha.. that makes sense. Yes, when I drove by yesterday the cows were out in the pasture. They seemed a lot happier. I bet they were stir crazy, just like us.

We use trucks but it's because our fields are spread apart and we need the big boxes on the back to transport the grapes back to the farm. We do have a couple of 4-wheelers and we are buying a new side by side this spring.

My dad uses slinky toys to keep them from climbing the poles. If the feeders are too close to the trees, they will just climb the trees and get the feeders. I'm kind of worried about bears this year. Last year we had our garbage tore into a few times.

We worked the new-to-us field this past week. We dug out a bunch of rocks, tilled it up and grabbed some soil samples. This is the field that we are going to try to do a town community garden in. We had a lot of help for the local people. It was great to see the kids out there too.