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Nashville - Were Born Into It

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NASHVILLE — They were born into it. But, what was once a 20 cow operation has grown into 150 cows and 700 acres. Spring Walk Farm, the name of which comes from the land and the spring by which they would have to walk to get to the barn, was established just north of Nashville in the late 1800s by William Wachtel. It 's now run by the father-son team of Bill and Kurt, who inherited it from William 's son and Bill 's father, Floyd. Floyd was born in 1918 to William and Lena, who lived down the road from today 's main farmhouse. It 's the same home into which Bill and his two sisters and Kurt and his two sisters were born. Bill and wife, Beverly, to whom he was married in 1963, moved into the main farmhouse when their children were young. Originally, William Wachtel milked all his Guernsey cows by hand. It was Floyd who introduced portable milkers, which were carted from stall to stall, with milk captured in buckets transported by hand to cans stored in a cooler in the milk house. By this time, the number of cows milked on the farm had doubled. In the 1950s, a milking parlor was constructed and it 's in there, with pipelines running from each stanchion to bulk tanks, the milk makes its way to await transfer into a cooler truck, which will haul it away. And, while the job was getting more streamlined, it didn 't make adjustment to farm life any easier for Beverly, who grew up as a city girl from Millersburg. “I was not a farm girl,” she said, adding the one piece of advice her

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