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Another Shipping Container Building for the Farm
We’re at it again with another shipping container project for the farm. A truck delivered two containers this week. One of them is pretty old and banged up, so that is destined to be used for more prosaic storage needs. …
Livestock Farm Fires
A couple of headlines about fires at livestock facilities have caught my attention recently. It occurs to me that farming out on pasture adds yet another level of security to our food supply. Unlike the prevailing wisdom of the industry, …
Enough With the Protein Already!
Want to get under my skin? Call me a protein farmer. Wrong Direction Farm is not a protein farm. Classifying Wrong Direction Farm as a protein farm involves some understandable oversimplifications. In a broad sense, we can agree that this …
Filet Mignon with Wild Mushroom Cream Sauce
We’re always appreciative when our friend Chef Katy develops another recipe using our products. This time she set herself the task of creating up a restaurant-worthy treatment for our beef tenderloin filets. The quality of these tender filet mignon cuts …
Farm Build: Snow Plow for the Tractor
This fall I spent some time in the garage cutting and welding an attachment for our tractor so it could plow snow around the farm. Years ago I bought a pickup truck at a municipal auction, and it came with …
On Vaccines and Meat from WDF
I know that you don’t read a farm blog for personal medical advice, so rest assured that I’m not here to poke a finger in your face and to tell you what to think about vaccines. This past week I’ve …
Building Some Flex into the Farm
This fall we constructed a mud-season feeding area for the cattle, in the hope that we would be able to prevent our herd from degrading the land during the spring mud season when the fields always turn to goo. Two …
Wizards, Prophets, and Farmers
This week I finished reading Charles Mann’s The Wizard and the Prophet (published 2018) and I thought it might be a worthwhile topic for discussion. The book centers on the ideological struggle to understand the best way to feed and …
Bark Fed Beef
Regular readers will know that I have always maintained an uncomfortable position on the term “grass fed beef.” It’s not that I’m against it; I’m all for it and firmly believe that it is one of the healthiest and most …
Learning to Use Solar in Winter
I mentioned a few weeks ago that we’re wintering our cattle in a field with the poorest soil on the farm. The cattle have been doing well, and I’m pleased to see how we’ve been able to get all that …