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Moo Additions to the Crowley Cracker Cow Herd!

New Cracker Cows

Please help us welcome, Ruby, Scarlett, Pearl, Loretta & Spooky! These beautiful registered cracker gals were generously donated to the Crowley Cracker herd by Duke Kaylor and Pelican Property Inspections. With the help of Mr. Ronny Fletcher they were transported…

Wildlife Wednesday Ovenbird and Conservation

Wildlife Wednesday Ovenbird and Conservation

Wildlife Wednesday Ovenbird and Conservation Today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday is a bit different than others. Today I present to you, with sorrow, an ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla). This individual is deceased due entirely to human development of natural land and…

Protecting Our Local Watershed

Marsh Pasture protecting our local watershed

Is it very important to us that we continue Protecting Our Local Watershed. Right up until Hurricane Idalia, we were able to graze our cattle on the marsh pasture, this helped to control the growth of exotic/invasive species of grass…

Myakka Farmland Disappearing

Myakka Farmland Disappearing

A beautiful rural sunrise over Myakka farmland that is under construction. Once these areas are developed, there is no going back. The landscape and the environment and animals’ health are forever negatively changed. We wish more landowners would consider conservation…

Hurricane Ian Cleanup Continues

Hurricane Ian Cleanup Continues

We are often asked just how long we anticipate it taking us to ”clean up” after Hurricane Ian that hit us directly at the end of last September. The short answer is “years.” Because it’s not so easy to just…

Welcome Lucille!

welcome lucille

We are very excited to welcome Lucille to CMNC! Please join us in welcoming Lucille, a brand new Kubota M6060HD with a hydronic grappler, bucket and pallet forks. She was made possible through the generosity of the Selby Foundation through…

Welcome Our New Addition Cypress

Cypress

Please help us welcome CMNC’s newest arrival! First spotted on March 23rd and thus named by 5 year old Archer Resnick, “Cypress” is a Watusi bull calf who is just as beautiful as his matriarch mother, Gypsy. Once weaned he…

Donations are always appreciated!

Fencing donation

We would like to thank our neighbors in Old Miakka, the Semirnecs, for donating these useful supplies! Their children showed pigs for the fair and since that chapter has closed and their children are grown, they decided to donate their…