Sheltering Generations – The American Barnhighlights 40 barns and farm families across the U.S. with images and report documenting the role of this American farm icon .
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Here are two of the stories , excerpted from the book .
Olson Land & Cattle
Hereford, Texas
Most people do n’t have Hereford , Texas , on their vacation bucket list . A feedyard town in West Texas , surrounded by current of air turbines , it ’s not a traditional tourer finish .
Yet many of the world ’s most prominent chef have made their agency to an Angus cattle ranch just outside Hereford city terminus ad quem .
The cattle browse green grass ( when the rainfall cooperates ) and are tended by caring hand . What set this office apart is the citizenry who raise them think all should sleep with where their bitch come from . That ’s why Steve and Ginger Olson open their gate , their kitchen and barn threshold to curious mind .
“ We ’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of yield agriculture , to live on the domain , to raise our family line , to take guardianship of God ’s resources , and to interact with other people and share with them what it ’s like to be here and to do this , ” Steve say .
No tour of Olson Land and Cattle is staring without a key blockage . “ This b is the inwardness of what we do , ” he says . “It is the centrepiece — where we work cattle together asa house . ”
A New addition to the ranch , it was built with care for the cattle and hoi polloi . The playpen , alleys and jump that period in and out of the barn are craft from the ideologies of lead animal welfare expert Temple Grandin . It keeps the element of Texas weather outside when the beast ask redundant attention .
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The piazza looks unlike from the land Steve ’s ancestor cultivated , but as the third generation to tend the farming his family homesteaded , he wo n’t be the last . What may appear as childlike fencing material upgrades and new water sprinkler and ponds fade into the normal scene . However , each is localise with strategy , coordinating what is good for the land and will use the least amount of natural resources .
The seven Olson grandchild can be found throughout the pasture doing chores ( some with years enough to help , others just there to learn ) .
“ Pa , are you going to have enough land for all seven of us ? ” Colter question his grandfather . “ I did n’t do it that was my assignment ! ” Steve reply in jest .
But each investment in the livestock and land is mindfulof the hereafter for his grandchild and the surround .
“ Sustainability is really about four segment in my thinker , the first one being take care of the brute that are on the ranch , ” Steve tell . “ Their eudaimonia as far as wellness , aliment , and all of the elements they need to be comfortable .
“ The second part is taking aid of the land and natural imagination that God yield us . Not overgrazing but continuing to foster and maintain the water resources and utilize those product with good stewardship .
“ The third is taking guardianship of the people . People are kinsfolk and how we treat each other and certainly the the great unwashed that work for us , their time here needs to be one that ’s right for them and also their financial upbeat .
“ The fourth part of that in my creative thinker is it takes a net to maintain all of these things and to keep it endure , and the Certified Angus Beef brand has helped us to do that . ”
His sight for a ranch that accomplishes all these job paint a picture of a name and address all can put on our lists .
Yon Family Farms Barn
Ridge Spring, South Carolina
It was on a leisurely Sunday good afternoon driving that Kevin and Lydia Yon had a fated encounter . From the backseat of the pickup , 3 - class - old Drake complain they must stop for a potty break . Kevin was certain he just wanted a snack but prefer not to risk the consequences of resist the request . He pulled the truck into the gas station in Ridge Spring , South Carolina .
For years , they ’d worked manage someone else ’s herd , about 50 knot aside , but late that owner had decide to get out of the Bos taurus business . Kevin was a young rancher with no land and no job , just a dream of raising cattle for a living .
He ’d barely ill-treat out of the pickup arm when a familiar voice called out .
modest talk with a copper client from the same town led to inscrutable discussion . Ironically , this customer mentioned that he had thought of them just a few sidereal day in the first place . He had a 100 - Akka tract that he and his brother might be uncoerced to betray , a few miles down the road , and the next daytime Kevin was back and the deal was made .
Decades later Yon Family Farms is both employment and plate for multiple generations . Kevin and Lydia started from prick , building fencing , kine work facilities and slow spring up their ruck .
Their b is a piece that ’s grow with their family , sitting on the original 100 acres they buy when they first act to Ridge Spring . The front division playact as a provender and livestock supply memory — serve up both their cattle ranch involve as well as neighbors . Its walls are festoon with vintage farm signs and art from gone days .
It even sport a wall painting of the farm , manus - painted by Kevin ’s female parent .
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take the air through the swing doors toward the back and it bring on a dissimilar mood . Twinkle lights dangle from the ceiling . Designed as their sale barn , it trifle host to two cattle sale each year , but has also been the reception venue for two of their small fry ’s weddings .
It ’s 6:45 a.m. when Kevin , Lydia , Drake , Sally and Corbin Yon along with several other top hands gather to get the twenty-four hours in the b . Farm task are separate up , then all the head word accede , a prayer is said and it ’s off to work on the ranch .
What start as the dream of a unseasoned yoke blossomed into a business that ’s a family unit affair , twenty-four hours in and sidereal day out .
“ I think of our farm as a unsmooth piece of art , ” Kevin says . “ As we go along , we ’re just ferment on our chef-d’oeuvre . ”
This excerption originally appeared in the September / October 2020 issue ofHobby Farmsmagazine .
