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The Vice President of Farming: living a double life since 2011

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Beefcoin

March 11, 2014by PaulFredenberg 9 Comments

The veterinarian and I stood out in the slush, faces toward a sun beaming with the type of warmth this pale Midwest skin hadn’t felt since November. I was doing […]

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Cattle, Farming, Food

Foreign Country: Plano, Texas

October 24, 2013by PaulFredenberg 13 Comments

It was lunchtime on a sunny summer Friday and I prowled the Dallas suburbs looking for the Next Big Deal. It sounds sexy to be out shopping for a thirty […]

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Business, Business Trips, Farming, Foreign Country, Hay

Getting Away from it All

October 11, 2013by PaulFredenberg 15 Comments

The whole thing had the look and feel of a tourist board commercial narrated by Tim Allen. Man casually sprawled on weather-faded Adirondack. Cargo shorts and faded sweatshirt spiked with […]

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Business, Farming

Equipment Dysfunction

August 16, 2013by PaulFredenberg 2 Comments

“How many kids do you got?” Steve asked. The answer is eight, of course, though it sometimes feels like more. A lot more. There are times it feels like twenty. […]

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Farming, Hay, Parenting

Sacred Saturdays

July 24, 2013by PaulFredenberg 8 Comments

I was up early, just after first light, alone and whistling softly, in good weekend spirits, preparing a batch of agua de sandía, a beverage engineered specifically for shirt-drenching workdays.  […]

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Farming, Firewood, Horses

Hay Fever

July 13, 2013by PaulFredenberg 1 Comment

You would never guess it from the marketing materials. The catalogs and print advertisements and websites all feature rock climbers perched on vertical cliffs, backcountry skiers buried in champagne powder, […]

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Business Trips, Farming, Farmwear, Hay

Eggs in Odd Places

June 25, 2013by PaulFredenberg 2 Comments

It’s an ongoing debate at our place: should we confine the chickens (easier management) or let them free-range (happier birds + more entertainment)?  Well, I hereby submit evidence for the […]

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Chickens, Farming

The Very Slow Track

June 24, 2013by PaulFredenberg 6 Comments

Back at corporate, down the long white corridor, tucked behind the row of senior executive offices, there is a small gym.  Five or six machines. Weights. Ten-foot ceilings. Panoramic mountain […]

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Business, Farming, Food, Sheep

Sleep Tips for Parents

June 17, 2013by PaulFredenberg 9 Comments

It was so late that even the crickets had knocked off for the night. Alison caught me just as I had begun an irreversible kamikaze dive into bed. The dives […]

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Bedtime, Cattle, Farming, Farmwear, Parenting

Mothers, Earth – And Fathers Too

June 16, 2013by PaulFredenberg 3 Comments

After a full day of planting progressively more crooked rows of kale and cabbage and turnips – “a lot of food,” as Alison put it, “the kids will never eat” […]

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Farming, Goats, Parenting

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I'm Paul. By day I'm an executive at a real estate investment fund. By night – oftentimes very late night – and weekend I masquerade as a homesteader/farmer. I live with my wife and 9(!) children in rural Michigan. Read more about me here.

EMAIL: vpfarming (at) gmail.com

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