Opening Remarks
(the editorial page)
From January 21, 2001
Its been snowing off and on for about 2 weeks now and the
landscape has gone from pristine white to bleak. Snow is for
Christmas-time and all other times its in the way. The roads get smaller
and the barn doors wont fold back against the barn to stay latched. The
animals are none too enthusiastic as well. They mostly don't want the snow
since they will not venture far from the barn and exploration of new areas of
the farm comes to a standstill.
From December 2000
Welcome to the Jackson
Family Farm home page. Lynn, Tim,
Kevin, Matthew, Alex, and Russell are living the good life in Southern New
Hampshire. After extensive
experience in the corporate culture we sold our business and moved to New
Hampshire from Massachusetts. In
these pages you can lean about our primary business of farm and family living.
In here you will find an eclectic mix of farming, motorcycling and dream home
construction. Lynn and I are
high-tech refugees. We went
to New Hampshire because “Live Free or Die” seemed to make a ton of sense to
us. We have found a new lifestyle
by blending our business acumen with the country.
New Hampshire is five-season state; spring, summer, fall, winter and mud.
Each season has its unique qualities that make living here varied.
Our main line of
business is eggs. Our free-range
chickens produce eggs that we sell to various people and businesses in and
around Chester. My plan is blend a
pastured poultry emphasis to give us an excuse to buy more land.
It is my feeling that the egg industry is under mounting pressure to
change its ways. I don’t agree
that a chicken has hopes and dreams that need protecting by well meaning
individuals that want to sooth their aching consciousness by making the farmer a
sporting target. I do realize that
these people want changes and are willing to pay up for those changes.
The battery cage method of egg production is going to have to change.
The price of eggs will rise and the extra money is going to create an
opportunity to make some decent profit in the egg business.
Time magazine has reported that home delivery of eggs is on the rise.
People care about what they eat. Perhaps
the Baby boomers have abused themselves at the alter of sex, drugs and rock n
roll for so long that the feel that they must repent to save their lives.
This is opportunity knocking. The experiments that I plan to run will
attempt to use alternative building, husbandry and ecologically sound methods to
keep from getting sued, fined and bludgeoned by angry mobs of activists seeking
faux issues such as chicken rights. And
who ever said opportunity was dead in agriculture J
My wife Lynn and I love
to ride motorcycles and regularly tour on them.
We both took the MSF course on Easter weekend in 1998.
The course was wonderful in teaching both of us how to stay alive out on
the open road. New Hampshire boasts
the highest per capita ownership of all-50 states.
At 5:00pm on a nice summer day, they bikers pour onto the roads looking
to wind down from the hard days. As
is expected New Hampshire is a Harley Davidson territory.
You can often see people living in dingy little trailer parks whose bikes
are worth more than all their other assets combined.
The motorcycles are nearly always clean and shiny and the attitude is
carefree. All works on this page
are the copyright of their respective authors.
No permission is given to use these works in any manner, way, shape or
form. Kevin’s Buck-A-Chick is a
service mark of Jackson Farm. All
rights reserved 1999 and beyond.