By the end of this chapter in the building of my dream farm, I have a contiguous 600 acre tract that is filled with gorgeous timbered ridges.View post →
I never would have thought that one day I would own an island - in Iowa of all places -but that's what happened as I continued to look for ways to expand the size of the Home Farm.View post →
To maximize value of my two investment properties, so I have enough capital to purchase 400 acres closer to the Home Farm, I first have to harvest some of the timber.View post →
It is time to start selling my investment properties in order to generate the cash required to purchase more 400 acres next the Home Farm.View post →
In order to have the funds to exercise the option to buy 400 acres next to the Home Farm I had to sell the investment properties.View post →
I finally have the entire Dream Farm put together. Believe it or not, after all this work, I ended up selling it several years later, for what I hope is a higher cause.View post →
The buck I shot this past season offers a good example of the challenges and opportunities of hunting ridges in bluff country. Mentally it's easy; physically it's hard.View post →
The buck I shot on October 29, 2020 was a real dandy. It was rewarding to shoot him in one of the areas I grew up hunting many years ago.View post →