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Quit Complaining and Eat What You’re Served

It has been amusing to listen to the agricultural industry griping in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold California’s ban on pork sourced from farms that use gestation crates for sows. Big ag wishes that folks would …

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Behind the Scenes

Erosion and Good Intentions

Ever since we’ve moved here, I’ve been bothered by a place where water has eroded out a gully through the middle of the pasture I call “center field.” It’s impossible to know exactly when the problem started. It doesn’t show …

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Recipes

Braised and BBQ’d Beef Belly Brisket

At first glance, this recipe seems like a lot of steps but once you taste the result you will understand why you made the effort! The Belly Brisket has lots of delicious beef fat marbling and to get it rendered …

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Behind the Scenes

500 Blog Posts

As I was setting out to write this week’s article I noticed the counter in the upper part of the page showing that I’ve written five hundred blog posts for the farm since 2014. I’ve been cranking out an average …

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Pasture Farming

Listening to Plants Talking

Roald Dahl’s books and stories have been a persistent influence in our family’s fiction. I’m pretty sure that my kids read all of his children’s novels, exhausting our local library’s collection and then pulling in the rest of the books …

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Pasture Raised Poultry

Back to the Brooder

This week we began the spring cycle of chickens, with the first batch of newly hatched chicks going into our brooder. We normally time our hatch dates to start earlier in the month, but this year it made more sense …

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Grass Fed Beef

How the Other Half Farms

I was in Arizona for a few days this week, and I’m sure it surprises no one that my sightseeing was more focused on agriculture than on landscapes. Wherever I travel, my head is always on a swivel, looking to …

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Pasture Raised Poultry

New Chicken Product Poll

We are developing some new chicken products to offer this summer once the pasture season gets underway. We need feedback from our customers to know how to prioritize our work on the sorts of items people would like. We’d really …

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Recipes

Recipe: Grass Fed Beef Stew with Fried Parsnip Chips and Gremolata

There’s often an expectation that beef stew is a cold-weather meal, but I’ve noticed that our customers tend to order stew cubes consistently year-round. And that seems right to me. I think there are times when our bodies just know …

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Farm Life

Is the Farm Grass Fed Certified?

Someone recently asked me if our beef was certified as grass fed by the American Grassfed Association. The question itself was straightforward but it caused me to do some thinking about certifications, trying to understand what kind of value they …

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