Farm Pictures: Pigs, Chicken Tractor, Guard Dog, Taro

People have been sharing some great farm pictures both on my Facebook Site, and through e-mails. Here are a few, and there are a lot more on Facebook. Please share your own, either through facebook, or by sending them to me directly, and I'll be happy to add a link to your farm with the pictures I post.

      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)

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