The Craighill Herd : Upcoming Radio Interview

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Upcoming Radio Interview

This Friday Evening, I will be a guest on Scott Terry's Christian Farm and Homestead Radio to talk about my Kerry and Dexter project. Scott is a dairy farmer in northern New York who is dedicated to both breeding, and the history of Jersey Cattle. I have had the pleasure of trading emails with him for years, but this will be the time we have ever had a chance to speak. Scott has a weblog that I follow here, and I bet the conversation will lead into some other interesting agrarian topics. If you would like to join us, follow the link above and call in Friday night.

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AnonymousJune 6, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Sounds like a good way to spend a Friday night! I appreciated Scott's podcast on the Family Cow, Episode 4. Learned some good tips about cattle fencing.
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About our Farm and Herd Name

In the 1840's, several families of Northern Irish immigrants came to western Pennsylvania to join their cousins who had settled here in the previous generation. Two of them were my great great great grandparents, John and Nancy Craig. They emigrated from the area of County Down between Ballygowan and Dromore. Here in Butler County they became active in agricultural promotion and breeding shorthorn cattle. Their son bought our farm in 1876 and built our house in 1892. In 1904 my great grandfather Hugh H. Grossman bought the farm from the Craig family, and his son, William Sheridan Grossman, married their granddaughter. Locally, this will always be Grossman farm, but since our cows came from Ireland and we live on a rocky hillside, we named the herd Craighill after my Craig ancestors who lived here. There is a Craigyhill in Antrim and a bittersweet song about emigration from there that you can listen to here.