Cows and The Cold–What we do to Help.

With the somewhat extreme weather that we have been experiencing this fall and winter, a lot of people ask how to the cows deal with this weather?  While it’s easy to bring the farm dog in to sleep on the porch in the winter, for us it’s difficult and...

How others are Supporting Local

I’m a huge advocate for supporting local whenever possible.  On our farm, we try to raise the majority of our food.  We have a very large garden which allows me to can or freeze it’s bounty.  Besides our beef, we also have a few chickens that provide us...

Looking back…

The presents are open, the kids are happily enjoying their new toys, and the turkey left-overs are finished.  As the new year is rapidly approaching, I’ve been doing a lot of looking back over the past year.  It has been quite the year for me and my husband at...

Happy Homecoming!

While many people are celebrating homecoming at their school or alma mater, homecoming here has a slightly different meaning.  Every year I look forward to the day the cows go out to pasture in the early summer and I look forward even more to the day that we go and...

It’s Time to Get Together and Support One Another

The recent restaurant ads depicting the conventional agriculture industry as “bad” has spawned a lot of social media attention both good and bad.  I have been reading numerous blogs, tweets, and posts from folks in the agriculture industry slamming these...