Hello, My name is Maddy. I live on a dairy farm and wanted to share my knowlege with the world. I'm also starting this blog for a school project. Every week on Friday for an hour my class works on passion projects. For those who don't know a passion project is were we work on something we're passionate about for a week. Some kids are working on lego robotics, portrait sketching, photagraphy, creating books and songs, equine projects, creating a video game and informing the world about certain subjects. You have to have a driving question(that can't be looked up on google), you have to research it and present it in some capasity. My question was " How do I better enhance the public about dairy farming?".

It surprises me about how much the world knows about dairy farming. Most people come from generations of farmers, which doesn't surprise me. Everyday farm information to me is usually new to someone else.

I'm the 8th generation on my farm. My Father's first relations moved here in the 1800's. My Great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather moved in on the other road. When his son (my Great- great-great-great- great-great grandfather) was old enough to live on his own he built the farm we now work on. My family is the oldest family and farm in L&A County. A couple years ago we officailly became bicentual farm, which means that we've been in Ontario for more than two hundered years.  

My dad started out with a purebred holstien herd.  In the late 1994 we registered our last cow, Frettshill Lincoln Beth.  A couple of years ago we started dealing with a new cattle dealer and got Frettshill Holsteins first half jersey.  We've gotten others half jerseys but we had health issues with them and sold them.  

We currently built a new freestall and parlour on our old barn.  When I was born my parents had just built the old freestall barn.  We use to milk in a tye- stall barn.  We'de let the cows in to the the fourteen cow tye-up and milk them, then we'de let them go and let in the next group.  That system took us four hours of chores!  Plus we had sore knees from bending over all the time.  So we decided to do something about it and built the new barn.

Anyway, I'm sorta stuck about what to write about first.  So I want you guys to email me about what you want to read/learn about.

                                                                                                  Thanks,                                                                                   

                                                                                                        Maddy