Backyard chickens have enjoyed a renaissance in popularity in recent years, and with a rise in popularity comes a rise in costs — for hens, for feed, for all things chicken. This trend has touched Farmcolony as well as we have seen the costs of raising chickens on the farm continue to go up. And […]
The Times They Are A’Changin’ and So Are We Read More »
Hemp Dogbane Very invasive and toxic to livestock Discovered in Farmcolony’s hay fields, mainly pasture H3 Hemp dogbane is a very invasive herb in the milkweed family considered highly toxic to humans and mammals. All parts of this plant exude a milky juice when bruised and all plant parts are toxic to livestock. The plant
What to do if you see these invasive plants on the farm? Pull! Read More »
The Farmcolony Annual Meeting will take place Saturday, August 1 following a special board meeting at 12:45 p.m. called to address pending board business. 12:45 – Special Meeting of the Farmcolony Board of Directors 1 PM – Meeting and Voting Soft Drinks and Water Provided The community dinner that usually follows our annual meeting is
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The long-awaited board meeting where members presented their ideas for income-generating or cost cutting ideas for the farm took place on Sunday, June 14, and the best idea of the day goes to (drum roll, please) Bill who crunched the numbers and found the farm could contract out the haying on the farm for less
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For almost three decades residents of Farmcolony were able to recycle numerous items at the Greene County Solid Waste Facility in Stanardsville: plastic, junk mail, phonebooks, magazines, glass, cardboard, newspaper and metal cans. That is now a thing of the past. Greene County has scaled back its recycling program to include only cardboard, newspaper and
Down in the Dumps over Greene County’s Reduced Recycling Program? Read More »
There is a constant battle going on between residents of Farmcolony and resident foxes over our chickens. We want chickens to provide us with eggs. Foxes want chicken for dinner. Many of us still fondly recall our favorite rooster, Goliath, who lost his life trying to protect his flock in a predator attack. Yes, we
Is it Justifiable to Kill Fox on the Farm? Read More »
Farmcolony is a cattle operation with fields of hay grown and harvested to provide for winter feeding of our livestock. Each year, we mow and bale our own hay and always have a few spoiled bales leftover that cannot be used to feed the animals, usually because of high moisture levels in the bales that
Scrap Hay. What is it? And What’s it to You? Read More »
Schools have closed, people who can are working from home, and grocery store shelves are emptying. As the less prepared scrounge through empty grocery shelves looking for the supplies they need to weather the storm, preppers are comfortably hunkering down in their well-fortified homes ready for whatever may come in this national emergency. How vindicated
What the preppers are saying now? “I told you so!” Read More »
I saw Limpy the other day. You know, Limpy, the deer in our neighborhood that we see hobbling by from time to time. I have noticed that other deer in our neighborhood tend to travel in groups, but not Limpy. Limpy is always alone, perhaps shunned by the deer community who see her as weak.
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Farmcolony said goodbye last week to an old friend and iconic member of our community, Ray Rush, who passed away peacefully at his home on January 5, 2020, surrounded by his family. We join Peggy in mourning his death and will continue to keep her and her children, Michael, Suzanne, Tommy and Bobby and their
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