Morning Sound Farm

Painting a life-sized picture of your family butchering chickens on a 3-storey building for everyone to see? Who does that? Apparently we fall into the "who does that" category fairly often and the question seems most appropriate with this project. On this third side of our mural building, the timeline was pretty tight- our artist had just three months to offer us. So we prepped the wall to be fixed and primed by the end of June. This wrap-around mural has a theme "To ever

Our 2025 season has come to an end. For this homesteading, homeschooling family, now is when real life begins. We have relished the...

Our kids are filmmakers, so all kinds of weird stuff has happened at our place over the years. Charlie Chaplin emerging from an...

Time to shrug off the slumber of winter and throw back our shoulders for spring, folks. What was our winter like? We had three kids...

Ask any farm kid, growing up on a farm feels like a mixed blessing. There are lots of animals, fresh air and places to play in your...

One of the defining winter events began in September when we left on a family holiday to the west coast, leaving the male goat frisking...

As we planned, we knew the Summer Mural would have so much meaning. Gathering hay, an impending summer storm, milking time, a family...

Let us introduce ourselves. We are Chuck and Danea Lawrenson, and we have been farming here in Sanford for almost 20 years. We raise...

This week began the avalanche, or dare we say "whiteout" of sweet little kids, with a lot more to come. It has been hard work since the...

Where else can your students see and feel milk coming out of a goat's udder? And learn to hold a chick that is less than a week old?...

With the beautiful East Side nearing completion, we’ve been using these winter months to plan for the North Side, which is twice(!) the...

Spring is an exciting time on any farm. Big plans have been laid all winter and the breeding season starts the previous summer. Bulls...

At our house, we love books. But we are picky. Books have to be good. Really good. What makes a good picture book? Here are three...

This was one of those ideas in the "hmm, cool, but it will never happen" category. The worst eyesore when we moved to the old feedlot...

Now that the dust has settled (we closed August 1st), it’s time for a few reflections on the season. Highlights: ~ Our amazing staff. As...

Usually I only post the bad feedback... it's more interesting. Plus it feels weird to brag. But we seem to have something really good...

We keep a fairly arms-length relationship with most of our animals. Other than the dogs, they aren't pets and we all have a job to do. ...

Yes, April is the time for kids to arrive. But April isn't supposed to be like this. Thankfully, the kids started arriving before the...

Here’s how a cow works: First, she has to have a calf. Then she makes milk. But that doesn’t make her a perpetual milk-making-machine. ...

Now that it feels like spring is close, I think I can start to talk about it. ‘It’ being this crazy winter. Even the open prairie feels...