Apafia Farm Blog
Farm notes from Marvin and Holly — newest first.
I hired a team of AI bots
August 30, 2026
Good day. I have hired a team of AI bots to help me run the farm. Yeah I know, crazy right, but I am already set to save about $500 so far this year and we are just getting started.
Just arrived
January 19, 2023
Ellie just delivered this beautiful calf. I uploaded this from our pasture I’m sitting here watching Ellie be a very good parent. Ellie is great and the calf is very healthy. Good job Ellie!
2023 beef for sale
November 3, 2022
Our 2023 beef has been posted to our website and is available for reservation. hurry, there is a limited number and they are going fast.
We are about to post new beef cattle for sale!
September 28, 2022
We regret that we can only produce up a few cattle for sale per year. And we greatly appreciate our returning customers so this is your notice to keep your eye on this website over the next week as we will be posting…
24 months!
February 12, 2021
This is what our calves look like at 24 months.
We will have two heifers for sale for breeding in May 2021!
February 12, 2021
We need to cut back on our breeding herd and will have two breeding heifers for sale beginning in May of 2021. Our first heifer is Butterscotch. Butterscotch was our first registered Dexter we purchased on our journey…
Halter breaking begins in earnest!
February 12, 2021
My first experience with halter breaking last year did not go well at all. That said you learn very quickly that babies inherit many things from both sets of mom and dad. Needless to say we got through our first…
Who is NO GATE?
November 21, 2020
We work very hard to rotate our cattle on a regular basis but still learning as we go forth. We planted 8 fields in ROW (Rye; Oats and Wheat) grass. We made the mistake of leaving the cows on the first 2 pastures too…
The ending of 2020....
November 14, 2020
Wow what a journey it has been for us. August of 2016 we started our journey with a herd we purchased from a lady in Live Oak, FL. We did not have a CLUE what we were doing! Fast forward to November of 2020 we have…
Visited a different kind of cow farm...
November 4, 2020
We visited a very different kind of cow farm today located in Dixie, GA. Marvin and I have found that by visiting someone else's farm and start asking questions you begin to learn all kinds of new ways to do things and…
Mamma cows.....
October 26, 2020
So April had her baby in the herd with all the other cows and Dillon looking on. We picked up her baby and she followed Marvin very frantically trying to make sure he was not hurting her baby! Once released into their…
It never gets old!
October 24, 2020
The birth of new calf never gets old to me. They are all so different with many kinds of personality and so vocal! Some are shy....some are bold.....some are very friendly...some very curious...some very cautious and I…
Learning to change how you do things...
October 23, 2020
One of the struggles you have as a cow farmer raising grass fed beef is how to more economically provide grass options for your grass fed beef. Problem is Mother Nature does not always help you out either with not…
The humor of working cows....
August 2, 2020
Any time you have to send cows through a chute it is never a dull moment. Having Dexters makes it so much easier than other cows for so many reasons. Both Marvin and I practice not yelling or moving real quickly when we…
The farm is a get away from stress of everyday living!
August 2, 2020
I am always and I mean ALWAYS thankful for my days off especially these specific recent times we live in. My job has become more stressful than ever before with the COVID excitement and the up and down of everything…
Reflections of owning Dexter Cows...
June 29, 2020
Well this up coming August of 2020 it will be four years we have been owners of a breed of cow that has truly changed our lives completely. The things we have learned have been so much it would take a book to write it…
Our site is officially live
September 27, 2019
We are both so excited. I must give credit to the new godaddy website builder though. if you see something wrong let us know. So far it’s all Marvins fault.
Very first Blog Post
September 18, 2019
This is Marvin, you may not hear from me very much because Holly is the communicator. But I am getting everything set up the way Holly wanted it. So far everything is going really well. It should not be very long now…