by Ned Stoller Ned Stoller

Spring is here!

Common Grackle

Spring is here! (Or at least the official date, it snowed yesterday here!)   The birds have arrived and are chirping.  If you are from Michigan as I am, then the arrival of the common Grackle is a great sign.  (Robins frequently winter over here, so don’t really count as a spring bird.)   Maple syrup season is in full swing and it is time to start planting in the house.  The mailbox is beginning to be stuffed with a myriad of seed and nursery catalogs.  

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by Ned Stoller Ned Stoller

Baby Calves!

Calf

Winter calving is well underway, and spring calving is just around the corner. This is the time I have always enjoyed. Seeing the new calves out with their mothers is a sight that cannot be duplicated!

I’d like to talk about those crucial first few hours and days of a calf’s life, especially during this time of year.

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Workshop Wonders

 

 

Workshop Wonders: …Tools that help us in the workshopTopside creeper

 

Second half of February! Winter is on the downhill slide for the northern half of the country – or for anyone in the northern hemisphere.  For our southern neighbors (as in the southern hemisphere!) your summer is sliding towards fall.   

A lot of us take this time to prepare for the upcoming spring season, whether we are repairing equipment from the use of last season, or getting it ready for this season.  Even if your workshop doesn’t depend on the outside seasons, then you are probably still in it!

If you are disabled or in some way limited in function, a “normal” workshop may present certain challenges that you can remove.  Let’s look at some tools that can help you in your shop.

 

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by Ned Stoller Ned Stoller

100 Alternative Farm-based Money-Making Ideas

A disabling injury can change what is the best way to earn money on a farm.  Here are 100 ways to adapt a farm business that could be more accessible to a worker after a disabling injury or illness.  You don’t have to quit the farm…just do it different!  At Disability Work Tools, we have a whole host of ideas how to help you adapt tools and equipment to help you keep working your dream job on the farm.  Handicapped farmer carrying a bucket.

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by Ned Stoller Ned Stoller

Disability:  What’s in that word?

“Disabled.”  “Handicapped.”  “Restricted.”  “Limitations.”  “Infirm.”  “Frail.”  “Incapacity.”  These are all words that many of us have become all to familiar with.      Webster:  The definition of disability is this:  a : the condition of being disabled.  b : limitation in the ability to pursue an occupation because of a physical or mental impairment: lack of legal qualification to do something  c: a disqualification, restriction, or disadvantage. […]

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