5/28/2017 Arriving Donnan Farm

From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 

Tim and Linda Bunyan

May 2017

Verona, New York @ Turning Stone Casino

OVERNIGHT at the Turning Stone Casino (TS for the owned and operated by the Oneida Indian Nation) and laundry completed. 

Now to the Family Farm:Ready to arrive Galway, New York at the highly anticipated: Family Farm

The glory of the road; you can never get enough. 

 We arrive at the Donnan Farm

It is a storybook perfect testimonial to generations of Dairy Farming since 1836 and is now in very capable direction by Kyle Donnan as the Headmaster and runs the farm mostly in hay and beef cattle. 


Cousin Kyle Donnan knows his market there and people know him and the quality of feed he offers.  The rain has delayed a hay planting and he is very ready to become busy.  He has a cell phone in his pocket and he says he runs the farm from his pocket!  

Quite a fine young man and knows his work.  His mom’s family dairy farm: Clear Echo Farm by Kevin Peck is also doing successful dairy business.  Kyle gave us a tour; it has been a farm for 144 years and going strong.

CLEAR ECHO DAIRY FARM - Kyle gave us a tour and was very informative in his description of the farm, everyday operation, and the animals that are cared for at the family farm: Clear Echo.

Generations of Family

Kyle showing us the nutrients in the feed. 
 

Yes, this is the barn where the cows sleep........on WaterBeds !!!

The Milking Stalls and Operations

Happy Cows

The 'walk-about'

 BABY CALVES being cared for and selected as fine future adults.

MORE HAPPY COWS 

PRIZED  NECESSARY  EQUIPMENT TO OPERATE A DAIRY FARM

cLEAR eCHO fARM LOCATED IN SARATOGA COUNTY, 

New York.

Christine planned a family get together held at her daughter Debbie and George's House.  It was potluck and lots of good food and visiting.  Kathy and Frank built their own RV and Tina and Brian, from Vermont, are caring for his parents recently located to Vermont.

We spent several afternoons with Cristine in her kitchen.  It is kinda like having my mom and those times when the discussion is the love of hubbys, fixin of the food, and Christmases gone by.  Christine and Hume are quite the perfect pair and delightful. 

Warm and willing to offer supper.  We chose to dine supper most days.
Christine and Hume have their schedule entailing a 6:00a.m. get up.
Hume does his chores up at the farmhouse. 
People come to the house into the garage where the hen eggs are inside an ice chest.  They leave their money in a metal box and pick up their eggs.  

FAMILY TRADITIONS

EVERYONE CAME TOGETHER TO GREET THE FAMILY FROM CALIFORNIA !!

Even the cows visited us in the RV on the front yard!

We went to Stewart’s ice cream and Hume used the coupons he had won at the community meeting.  We had fun doing this and made a couple of trips. 

Tim and I visited the cemetery and found the Bunyan area and the Donnans and others from late 1700. 

We enjoyed going to church, at this Presbyterian sanctuary, with Hume and Christine.  The Rev. Thomas Gregg, likes this church and community.  He stated that he knows it is his calling to be there.  During services, he announced the Bunyans and Donnans and Jos. Manas families having built much of the church and steeple.