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Riders & The Organic Dairy

7/11/09, Franklin, IN - This was a really nice day. Last night I got a visit and a nice letter from 9 year old Alyssa, which I’ve included below. Alyssa, her mother and grandmother have been following the blog since last October.  Letter:

Dear Bob,  I love riding horses. I show lots of animals in 4-H. I am nine years old.  I show horses in 4-H too. It is so fun.  It is cool that you build the wagons you ride in all by yourself.  I heard about your wreck last year. You are brave to keep on riding the wagon with your horses after your wreck.  It must be fun to ride in a wagon with horses pulling it.  Good luck on traveling around the USA. Love, Alyssa.

I invited Alyssa, her mother and little sister to ride in the wagon for a few hours today. The girls had a great time and Alyssa found out herself how fun it was to ride in a wagon. Everybody had a great time and the girls left after lunch.

I currently camped at the home of Larry and Patty Vogel. They own an organic farm and dairy a couple of miles west of Franklin, IN.  They normally milk about two dozen head of Jersey’s. They get a very high contract price for milk that is high in butterfat and protein. They also win annual awards for their low bacteria count. This is a seasonal dairy that dries the cows out for three months out of the year. Cows treated in this fashion calve most of their adult life.  The milking is done is a five cow parlor.

Other dairies that are very high volume often get an average of less then two lactations out of a cow before it is culled from the herd.

Just as a little disclaimer, when I took these pictures, it was chore time and the pens hadn’t been scraped yet. You can see that these animals lead a very clean, long and healthy life.  A lot of people stop by the Vogel’s for produce, meat, eggs and whole milk (for animal consumption only, of course).  There’s a very good reason for this: you’re always sure what you feed your family is all natural and the best there is.

Bill and Bob are having a great time here.  They love being inside/outside horses with clean stalls and all they can eat. Personally, I think if we stayed here too long, they would become spoiled brats and demand valet parking service for the wagon!

Bob has been after me to be a guest blog writer. I told him there is no way he’s getting his size 8, steel shod hooves on my keyboard.  We’re currently negotiating a him-speak, me-type deal.  But it’s contingent upon his lunch time behavior.  He currently likes to scratch all of his considerable itchy places on the side of the wagon, causing a force 9 earthquake in the wagon. This makes it extremely difficult to eat soup!

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