Footings and Floors
We are trying to get a jump on growth. We rescued two buildings from farmyards being bull dozed. Now we need footings to put them up at our farm to use for the sawmill and a woodshop. The FedEx grant…
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Tree
Removed for parking lot
Had to come down. Blessed to help it be utilized.
Biochar and Animal Confinement
I suffer from anosmia. Meaning I can’t smell. Not sour milk. Not skunk aftermath. Not the manure in the stock yard. But I have people in my life with over active olfactory sensory neurons. They smell it very well and…
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Old maple surprise
Cutting into a log can reveal all sorts of surprises. Maple on ground for 2 years. Exterior looked like piece on left. Inside was spalted. We’ve made a few cheese boards (Charcuterie) for my nephew and his bride. A…
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What’s inside?
Get asked all the time if this log or that one is worth milling. They’ve been sitting for ‘a while’. It’s not a ‘great tree’. What can it be used for? Actually, someone at church asked this week if Chinese…
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Biochar for soil and personal health
So many uses for biochar. It can improve your soil and therefore crop growth, but can it also reduce health care costs? This from a research study at Rice University. When I first saw the headline, I thought they were…
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Great Plains Biochar Initiative Grant Award
“Waste” to Value Added Product We are passionate about our natural resources. From soil to all things that depned on it to grow. When a farmer can improve the soil, they can decrease inputs and improve their bottom line. When…
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Help us help others
We’re trying for a grant that will help us get a safer and more efficient way of gathering what’s perceived as ‘wood waste’. We will be an outlet for roughsawn lumber, custom wood products from spoons and clocks to furniture,…
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What now SCORE!
Can’t wait to meet up with a SCORE Mentor and learn more on marketing and other business skills that are not in our wheel-house. In the last month I’ve talked to many people at 3 home & garden/farm shows that…
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SCORE!
We are proud and honored to announce that Slezak Ag and Natural Resources has been chosen as an American Small Business Champion by SCORE and Sam’s Club. The American Small Business Championship (championship.score.org) awarded this title to 102 small businesses,…
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