As long as I have lived on this farm, which is 31 years, the swallows have occupied the same spot in my shop every summer and produced two batches of little ones. We leave a back door open wide enough for them to come and go while the adults feed their five young ones. They are always a welcome sight in the spring due to their voracious appetite for mosquitoes and other insects.
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Wade Bulman
Wade Bulman owns and operates a small farm of 236 acres in the west-central Driftless Area Region of western Wisconsin. He primarily grows cash-grain crops, but has a small cow-calf herd and finishes his steers.
