Farm Pictures: Pigs, Chicken Tractor, Guard Dog, Taro
Here on the left, Jake Kerby has shared some great pictures of his pigs, and his homemade chicken Tractor.
The next picture (below) of Chris Holman's Great Pyrenees pup, Kelby (the guard dog) guarding the chickens in the greenhouse at Nami Moon Farms in Custer, WI is one of my personal favorites.
And the final picture here is from my friend Kurt Lamour, a Plant Pathologist at the University of Tennessee (who some of you may recognize from the morel mushroom foray pictures over the last few years) from his recent trip to Hawaii. As he describes it, "old farmer Nanna Margaret took us into the valley with her 4wd truck - me and Sandesh (one of Kurt's Graduate Students) standing in the back while she drove straight down and up a creek at the bottom. She's been farming taro here near Hilo on the big island for 55 years. (it's big, so click Read More to view it)
I was just on the Big Island last January. We’re going back in October. We haven’t been to Hilo yet, but this picture reminds me of Waipio Valley on the Northern coast of the Big Island.
I can’t wait to get back there and this pic reminds of the beauty of Hawaii.