Category Archives: Circle S Farm News

Find something you really love doing and mix it with something you really care about.     Kathleen Hanna What I love is working with horses.  What I care about is growing healthy food, building soil, sequestering carbon, saving road miles … Continue reading →

“No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse’s flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.” ― Erik … Continue reading →

Sweat cleanses from the inside.  It comes from places a shower will never reach.  ~George Sheehan A hand that’s dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb Two quotes for this labor day!  I will be … Continue reading →

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. – Winston Churchill     horse·pow·er /ˈhôrsˌpou(ə)r/ noun 1.a unit of power equal to 550 foot-pounds per second (745.7 watts). I’m not … Continue reading →

“In the deep sky where there had been a sun, we saw a ring of white silver; a smoking ring, and all the smokes were silver, too; gauzy, fuming, curling, unbelievable. And who had ever seen the sky this color! … Continue reading →

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” ― Mark Twain Well, we finally got our hay shed add on completed.  It was the first of a long list of projects that we had … Continue reading →

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” ― Henry Adams Every now and then someone will ask me what a typical day is like for me, being a farmer.  It always makes me smile because there is no typical … Continue reading →

“Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high There’s a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” -Wizard of Oz … Continue reading →

“It’s alright to be little bitty, a little home town or a big old city, might as well share, might as well smile, life goes on for a little bitty while” -Alan Jackson It’s a “little” counter intuitive to us … Continue reading →

“Farming is a profession of hope.”    -Brian Brett When I was a kid, there was a horse at the barn named “If It”.  Apparently he was bought off the track and looked pretty rough when he came in.  Someone … Continue reading →