First Crop Mob experience

I was pretty excited on Sunday morning when i woke up extra early to fix my self a big breakfast cause i was going to be participating in my first Crop Mob at Wells Branch farm which is two local farms who have joined together, a Crop Mob main goal is to allow people who want to be involved in farming a chance to live out their dreams of helping around a farm if only for a few hours and gives other local farmers a chance to see the different farm operations around town while meeting new and interesting people. When Mike, Trace and I first arrived there were not to many Mobber's and we got started by picking some rocks in a garden which the pigs had tilled up since the last harvest, then it was off on the tour of the over 450 acre grass feed Red Devon cows which are from New Zealand.  

After the tour we all split up into different groups cause there was a mountain of work to be done and over 50 people to help out Trace and I both choose the fencing group cause that will need to be going up soon at the farm for the goats and other animals that will be coming soon, so after cleaning up an open shed and picking up the rest of the rocks it was off to eat a delicious lunch with meat from all the pigs and cows. I just decided to wait on eating meat at this particular time and stuck with the yams w/ pecans, collard, grilled vegetables and my favorite Corn bread, so after two big helpings and a full belly we were off to learn how to set up a high tension wire fence. Even though this isn't the type of fencing that we will be utilizing it is good to know where to use bracing and how long to run your wire before using a post was very informational but also pretty boring if you had to fence some 450 acres.

So after all of the fencing fun we could all handle we rode back to the house where everyone had been jamming at since after we finished lunch, they also had some home brew beer that went down right nice after hard day of work and a little bit of standing around in muddy clay which is quite hard to walk in.