In this episode, Mark and Brandon chat more about smartphones, the value of mundane farm tasks, breeding Jersey milk cows and bulls, fencing for cows, and teaching folks (and your kids) to shoot pigs. Also, Mark wrote and performed a beautiful sonnet about shooting pigs for Brandon.

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Timestamps/Topics for Episode 98:

0:00 The value of the mundane repetitive farm chores

14:16 Breeding Jersey milk cows and bulls

25:22 Fencing for cows

36:20 Teaching kids to slaughter livestock

43:44 Let Thy Belly Meet The Earth! Sonnet Mark wrote Brandon

45:39 Mark's latest project

Links for Episode 98:

• Gallagher Animal Management https://am.gallagher.com/en-US
• Sacred Heart Homestead Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/2qtwVm1eU6medkFpn0fyY9?si=fe101b2284cb4c19
• To Shoe a Stallion by Mark Wertin https://a.co/d/03vPset6
• Contact Mark at [email protected]
• Let Thy Belly Meet The Earth! by Mark Wertin:

The day would come prophesied the Sheards

When one shot may not do

The day was here the men had feared

So they loaded not one but two

The shot was low claimed the nasal-y snort

As the beast ran down the fence

Man one went numb, he was all out of sorts

Lack of patience caused suffrage to commence

Man two grabbed the gun and strode after the pig

It was now time to clean up this mess

Heroic patience required with a distance so big

To overcome this moment of stress.

The sights aligned, the barrel gave birth

The bullet cried, Let thy belly meet the Earth!