Soil Sample Collection

Today being my last day off before I go back to work, I decided to take some of the kids to the farm to gather a soil sample. With corn not yet knee high, it was a good time to get out there and gather up some dirt from about 20 different spots mostly around where we want the orchard to be. The kids did great in the barn and we brought along a broom to let them start cleaning it up a little bit. The barn is in very bad shape, but I do believe it is fixable, though we may name it the money pit because there is a lot of things we could do to work on it.

On June 15th, we close on our land purchase out near Tonganoxie. We've been searching for quite a while and thought we had found our new home out near Smithville, MO, however the deal never was able to get closed since we were dealing with a seller who wasn't that interested in selling.

For now we are starting the process of figuring out where things like the house, orchard, driveway's and other items will be placed on our 16+ acres that we will soon own.