Special Extraordinary Introducing Adventures of_ Breeze – Christopher Joe

Well, I just want to start by saying it’s always a pleasure to speak from an area of doing it. A lot of people, you know, they discuss things and it’s kind of, “Well, I read this in a book and I heard somebody say this.” But hunting has been a passion of mine, grew up doing it. I started early in life, I guess 11 or 12 Dad took me squirrel hunting. And all of this was done on our own family farm, third-generation Black Angus farmer from Newbern, Alabama.

So in the South mostly the areas that we have a lot of people do catfish farming, cattle, and, you know, just your… Some row-crop farming goes on further south Alabama and some other places.

But got into hunting early and I developed that outdoors passion, I guess, from my dad. Growing up on farm, you got early Saturdays. Even if you come home from the school, if the hay needed to be hauled out to field, I guess you had to get your homework quick, and then we went down to the farm. The farm is…we live in Greensboro, Alabama, born in Greensboro, Alabama. The farm was about 10 minutes from our house. So we weren’t “raised” raised on the farm, it’s where my dad grew up, it was his family land.

And we’d pretty much go down there, we have cattle. And that’s who, I think, is sponsoring my appearance tonight, is the Joe’s Black Angus Farm of Newbern, Alabama. And I’ll put that contact information up later on while we, you know, discuss some other things. But I started the idea of wanting to do something different with our farm once my father retired. He’s an agribusiness teacher of 34 years. And when he retired he said, “Well, I’m going to go down to the farm and I’m going to expand the farm.” And I will grow the farm to where he wants it to be, it’s a passion of his to raise cows, to work the land, to work the soil.