Simple Times Farm & Stables Blog

Bring Dad out to Cowboy Church on Sunday. Pack a picnic lunch and plan to stay after for some down home fun on the farm.

Cowboy Church is a great time to introduce friends to the great stuff going on at Simple Times. It’s free, fun, and comfortable – Don’t mention the health food!

Come in your jeans and bring your singing voice for some old and new tunes. Pony rides will be available (donations accepted), and we’ll throw an old movie up on the barn wall and enjoy some popcorn with those who stay for the evening.

It doesn’t get any better than this!

Many of the crops are in and growing with a few still to go. A cool and wet May slowed planting this season, but the harvest is looking good – Lord willing!
Tonight, I began working an untilled area of the farm in preparation for fall crops. As the tractor and plow bucked through the reluctant field and rolled up the tangled grass and weeds into massive chunks of cut sod, I thought about all the preparation that goes into planting. Ninety percent of the pain in farming precedes it. Soil sampling, soil fixing, plowing, disking, tilling and then tilling again all work together to prepare the soil for healthy growing.
The same seems to hold for change in my life. A huge mess almost always introduces any good and beauty and order are not in view. The only thing that keeps me going is dreaming of the harvest. Amazing how hope for some future good is such a potent force. As you and I wait to reap, know that everything planted in pain can bring harvests of joy.

Tonight, I began working an untilled area of the farm in preparation for fall crops. As the tractor and plow bucked through the unwilling dirt and rolled up the tangled grass and weeds into massive chunks of cut sod, I thought about all the preparation that goes into planting. Ninety percent of the pain in farming is