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Introducing Turkey Breakfast Sausage Patties
This is something we’ve been working on for the last two months. We’re glad to be sharing our turkey breakfast sausage with you, made with our pasture raised ground turkey and 100% certified organic ingredients.
Why Pasture Raised Chicken Is A Seasonal Food
We had another chilly week, and although spring is coming, we’re still snowbound here with just a few bare patches of brown grass showing through on the most windswept fields. I thought it might be a good time to talk ...
Hitchhikers and Stowaways
“Uh, did you know you’ve got someone in the back of your truck?” I do have a history with hitchhikers, so stowaways probably shouldn’t surprise anyone as the next logical progression. But I never meant to become a trafficker. Much ...
Recipe: Braised Grass Fed Beef Short Ribs with a Horseradish Gremolata
We’re starting off a recipe series for this year all specially developed by our friend Katy Sparks using Wrong Direction Farm meats. And this weekend, as we’re digging out from a major snowstorm, it feels right to start with a ...
Frustrated by Machines, Encouraged by People
Whirr. Whurrrrr. Whhh. I could tell the tractor wasn’t going to start, and I knew that my day would now be spent with ratchets and sockets and multimeters. A simple run out back to feed the cattle wouldn’t be simple. ...
Bedding Bales: Preparing for a Snow Storm
With a forecasted big snow coming over the weekend, it was time to set out bedding for the cattle to give them a comfortable place to get through the weather. This video shows the way I select bales for bedding, ...
Herbicide Without End
I appreciated Bart Elmore’s recent writeup in The Conversation about the prevalence of herbicides in our food supply. The article covers the two big headliner herbicides Dicamba and Glyphosate, as well as a resurgence of other herbicides that had been ...
Bringing the Grass to the Cows
Today we’re feeding the cattle bales of summer grass. I thought it might be interesting to show the process of feeding, and to look at the protective bale rings we use to prevent the cattle from trampling their valuable feed ...
When the Grass Isn’t Growing, What Do Grass Fed Cattle Eat?
We often emphasize the importance of “grass fed and grass finished” as a standard for feeding our beef cattle. Grass fed cattle are eating the kind of food that suits them best, and this is a very different diet compared ...
Empty Shelves and Farm Economics
My mom sent me pictures of the meat cases at her nearby grocery store. Many shelves were sparsely filled, while others were completely bare. We seem to be facing wave after wave of disruptions in our commodity markets, and there’s ...