God’s Peace, Scot Miller
Shelbyville, MI

Dear Farming Magazine, The last issue of Farming Magazine was wonderful, as they all are! The last issue contained an article about the new Local Roots Farmers’ Market in Wooster, OH, and visiting friends of ours wanted a copy of the magazine. I gave them mine and now need a replacement. The enclosed check is to repay for the replacement and postage. There will probably be a little left over and I would be obliged if you would put it in your coffee fund or in some way use the remainder to the benefit of your magazine.

 Jim Anderson
Shreve, OH

Thanks, Jim!

Hello and greetings from Old England: I received my copy of Farming Magazine this week with your note to indicate that the subscription had expired. That subscription had been a gift from my friends in the Shenandoah Valley and I have enjoyed each one immensely. In fact, there is so much meat in each edition that I can continue to browse them for months to come. However, I am not directly connected with farming anymore and don’t have a present need or use for the information (some of which doesn’t apply to us here), and in view of the expense of postage have decided not to renew. However, it is cheering for us here 4,000 miles away to know that there is such a fine magazine and that the folks who contribute and are involved in what you describe are still persevering with the best of farming.

With very best wishes,
Ben Gosling Lavenham,
Suffolk, UK

To the subscription department: If you have any of the Winter ’09 Farming Magazines left, would you be kind enough to send one to my son and his wife who will be the recipients of this subscription, to start them off. They saw mine the other day when they visited me and thought it was such a great magazine and it certainly is. I love it. Thank you in advance from a faithful reader.

God bless all of you.
Ruth Pendlebury
West ford, MA

Dear Sirs, A friend of mine lent me your Fall ’09 issue and I thought it was well-written and informative, and I enjoyed reading the articles. I would like to have a two-year subscription to Farming Magazine. Enclosed is my check for 32 dollars.

 Thank you,
Julie Essig
Olsburg, KS

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Wade Wilson, PO Box 68 Lewis, CO 81327, is interested in back issues that are sold out–all 2001 issues, Spring 2003, and Fall 2005. If you have any you would be willing to part with please call: 970.739.0121. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Bruce Thron
Oakdale, LA

Merry Christmastime greetings! First, thank you for the postcard reminding me that my subscription had lapsed…I did not realize it. I would be very sad to miss an issue of this fine magazine. We were introduced to your magazine during a stay with the Miller family at their Farmstead B & B in Fredericksburg, OH. It was in September 2008 and was my son’s 15th birthday and their daughter baked him a lovely cake. They had a cookout dinner for him, and then invited us in for dessert and coffee. It was a wonderful evening and we truly enjoyed our time of friendship and fellowship with them! That is when Willis brought out a copy of your magazine…we had shared with him that our older son, Bryan, plans a career in farming. He has now decided on sheep farming…how we enjoy Ulf Kintzel’s articles! We live in suburban Chicago, where farms are scarce to non-existent. So your magazine and Mr. Kintzel’s pieces are a glimpse of the future, Lord willing, for Bryan. We’ll “meet” a sheep farmer any way we can! Thank you again for your assistance with my subscription. Have a merry Christmas!

Blessings,
Lori Havens
Lisle, IL

Dear Friends, Although I have never met any of you except in the pages of Farming, we did get to meet the Leroy and Martha Kuhns family—Andrew, Laura, Betty, and Susan—on their trip out West the fall of 2008. I only wish they could have stayed longer. Families who truly farm are an anomaly around here; some dabble in it as a hobby, few know how to do it well. So for several years we have prayed that God would bring a family our way who love the land and their Creator who loves us. Last summer the Moore family moved onto a 30-acre farm a few miles away. Mel and Jennie, Dusty, Timmy, Emma, Scott, Ralph, Clint, and Luke. We had them over for a meal, and later when I saw the children engaged in a grand mudfight, I was sure they would enjoy farm life. I’m convinced you have to love dirt under your finger and toe nails to love old-style family farming. They do, plus they have a great library on farming, so I know they will succeed. We taught Dusty, Emma, and Scott how to drive our Fjords, and to milk, so we were able to go to our daughter’s graduation as an RN and know our Jerseys, beef herd, and chickens were okay. (The gift subscription is for them.) Our farm has changed since we started. Our first tractor-based haying season convinced me that FFA stands for Father Farms Alone. So exit tractor and enter Norwegian Fjords. But for haying, we still needed a tractor. And our land is pretty worn out so we don’t produce enough feed for even six cows, calves, etc. So we began cutting smaller acreages around our valley. Now we swath and bale and haul hay home using machinery. Once we’re home we do pretty much everything using horses. All this hay fed through our cows is changing our soil from clay to loam. We also offered to care for a friend’s 14 bulls in trade for all their manure. Fourteen bulls produce a lot of manure! The boys and I like going barefoot on our farm and we can feel the soil tilth improving where we have been ground feeding the past five years. Now we plan to lightly disk, harrow, and broadcast-seed clover, bird’s-foot trefoil, bluegrass, and perennial rye. God prospers us with a good farm life and I hope He does the same for you all, too.

J.M. Roy
Princeton, ID

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