Cast of Characters (part II)

We're already into the month of June and we're not entirely sure how that happened!  We hope you will join us for the coming growing season and we'd like to offer up the following in an effort to help you to get to know our cast of characters on the farm.  You may notice that some of the text is kind of a lighter brown color - that indicates a link to a different blog post.  So, you can click to read more if you wish!

This is part II of our Cast of Characters Posts.  If you want to see the first post, you can click here!

Rosie- We Can Do It!

Durnik

Chumley the Big Red Truck

You will find that we do not stop at giving names to cats on our farm.  Some of our equipment has been named for whatever reason we see fit.  For example, our truck is named Chumley.  If you know anything about the Robert Lynn Asprin series featuring Skeeve, you will know who Chumley is.  If you don't know that series, then you will simply know that our TRUCK is Chumley.  Good enough, we think!

Dippet and the Dippettes

Diggle

The Ladies

When it comes to poultry on the farm, we tend to go back and forth between having names for individual animals and names for the group of animals in question.  This, of course, makes much more sense if you consider the fact that we raise many of our birds for meat production.  They simply aren't going to be around all that long.  And, when you have 150 broilers, naming them all is simply out of the question.

The Cucumber Frog

Then, there's Cucumber Frog.  Ok, it is likely that there is more than one cucumber frog.  All I can say is this.  Leopard frogs LIKE cucumbers.  They also like to wait until Rob is convinced that they aren't around before they jump and startle him while he's picking cucumbers.  Let's just say that there have been a few interesting contortions as a result of a Cucumber Frog startle event.

Flutter By

Again, there isn't just one.  And, no we don't always call a butterfly a 'flutter by.'  But, they are an important part of our farm, so they deserve mention.  Rob has actually had a Monarch land on the underside of the bill of his cap more than once.  But, Red Admiral butterflies seem be the most willing to land on people at our farm.

The Spider in the Door

We have a fun story that includes the Spider in the Door that you might enjoy.  Go take a look.  Yes, we do have spiders on the farm.  Sorry if you don't like them.  We do need them on the farm, but certainly respect how it can creep one out if you accidentally back into a web.

Gang of Four (most of us anyway)

We will periodically mention farmer friends of ours from Blue Gate Farm, Grinnell Heritage Farm and Scattergood Friends School Farm.  We visit each farm during the growing season and hold a 'Nota Conference' in the winter.  They're all just good people.  We like good people because.  Um.  They're good.

The SNORT

And, to finish up this post, we would be remiss if we didn't mention the Snort.  The Snort has now visited the farm twice.  Once to put in a new well at our farm and once to help us run frost free lines to our new high tunnel (last year).  The new well was not a planned event and it led to a three part story for our blog that many people have enjoyed.  If you have not, here is the link to Part III (which includes links to I and II).  We recommend you read them in order if you want to be entertained.