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Tommy, John, Sarah, Emma, and Milo the cat February 2012 |
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Meet the Stelzl Family |
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Fairview-Springhill Farms is a family farm. John farms full-time, while Sarah teaches in neighboring Warren County, helping out with feeding baby calves, bookkeeping, and other tasks as needed. We have been blessed with two wonderful children: 10 year old Thomas and 5 year old Emma. We enjoy sharing the farming experience with them.
John grew up on the farm where the dairy is located. His mother, Betty, grew up there too, and still lives there. We live on the farm where the pigs are located, less than a mile away. In addition to our farm animals, our family also consists of a Border Collie named Lass, who is a cattle dog in training, a Great Dane named Luther, a Beagle named Sunday and 2 cats—Kylie and Milo. Tommy now has a horse, Max! |
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Fairview—Springhill Farms |
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Thomas and Emma Christmas 2008 |
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Thomas and Emma, Easter 2008 |
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Thomas, Emma and Sunday the Dog Christmas, 2010 |
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Tom and Emma, Christmas 2011
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Thomas, Emma and Milo and Kylie |
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Emma, the Farm Girl! October 2009 |
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Tommy, with Cosmo the cat and the bottle fed baby calves (when Tommy was just a baby himself!). Those babies are now full grown Dairy cows in our herd. |
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Emma, Max the Horse, and Tommy, Christmas 2011 Chr |
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Does it hurt when I do this? (Christmas 2007) |
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Thomas and Emma Christmas 2009 |
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Thomas and Emma October 2009 |
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Of course, Sunday had to get in the Christmas spirit too! |
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Get to Know Your Farmer! There is more to John than just farming! His grass is also blue! He plays bass guitar, among many other instruments. Our church (www.fairviewumc.com) hosts a monthly Bluegrass/Gospel Open Mic/Jam Session and John always plays the bass there. He plays whenever he gets a chance. (Ask him about Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford the next time you see him!) |
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Emma likes to sing too! She knows all the words to quite a few songs, and performs Country Roads, Amazing Grace, and many other songs whenever she gets a chance! |
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Tommy plays Native American Flute, piano and guitar, too, and likes to sing, but he is a farm boy, through and through! After the first calf was born this spring we found him cuddled up with the calf in the barn—with his jacket around the calf! |
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Oh, yeah, did we mention that Emma is not going to be outdone by Tommy? She is a farm girl too! She will be going to Kindergarten this fall! |
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Tommy is also a straight A student, in the gifted program at his school and is an avid reader and author! |