At home on a hog farm: This family built a home and a hog farm from scratch, while enjoying the beauty of nature

摘要

Terry and Diane O'Neel like to relax the old-fashioned way — sitting on the porch swing of their farm home near Friend, NE, listening to songbirds in a nearby grove of trees. It wasn't always this way. The O'Neel farm site was once a wide-open crop field where, as a high-school kid, Terry picked up straw bales under the searing summer sun. And he rode a tractor each fall, disking down clods to get the ground ready for another crop. It all changed when the O'Neels bought this ground from Terry's parents and started building their home-place by planting a thousand trees. They moved in a house, remodeled it to raise a family, and constructed seven hog buildings to house 550 sows and their offspring through finishing.