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

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Home Alone

July 8, 2015by PaulFredenberg 2 Comments

The recent heavy rainfalls and resulting heavy mosquitoes are the topic du jour around here. The buggers are making up for the lost time of a dry spring and attacking with […]

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Farming, Food, Hay

Foreign Country: Blythe, California

February 27, 2015by PaulFredenberg 7 Comments

I awoke at 4:30 and by 5:00 the rental Nissan was motoring down the sparsely vegetated ribbon of interstate between Palm Springs and Phoenix. I had just weathered two straight […]

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Business Trips, Cattle, Farming, Foreign Country, Hay

Tender Loin

November 9, 2014by PaulFredenberg 12 Comments

It was the kind of gathering where a bowling ball rolled across the lush, encyclopedia-thick carpeting  might only make it eight inches before hitting the next set of Gucci loafers. […]

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Business, Business Trips, Cattle, Farming, Food, Hay, Miscellaneous

Creative Destruction

July 25, 2014by PaulFredenberg 5 Comments

I stared out at the Gulf, a ripe nectarine in one hand, a bag of granola in the other, watching the playboy yachts chugging south toward the Keys and the half-drunk […]

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Farming, Hay

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

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

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

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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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