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Recipe: Chili Mole with Grass Fed Ground Beef
Chef Katy Sparks does it again with another seasonally on-point recipe. This time she used Wrong Direction Farm grass fed ground beef to make a wonderful beef chili mole. Ground beef slow cooked with chocolate, poblano chilis, and ground pumpkin …
Wrong Direction Farm Turkeys Featured in Small Farms Quarterly
I wanted to pass along an article I wrote for Cornell’s Small Farms Quarterly about Wrong Direction Farm’s pasture raised turkeys. My plan is to develop a short series on various aspects of pasture raised turkeys in the upcoming editions. …
Keep Your Nose Clean
When I wrote the blog post about how our cattle use their noses as a grass guidance system, there was one detail I overlooked: cow nose maintenance. Even if you’ve got a precision instrument, there’s always some maintenance required. Here …
Video: Clearing Fencelines in the Woods
About twice every year I need to clear fallen trees and branches off the fencelines that run through the woods. I captured some video while I worked on that today. I took a little time showing how we run fences through the woods without using fence posts. And I discuss how these fences allow us to balance the need to contain cattle while also letting deer and other wild animals pass through our farm.
What Are the Cattle Eating in the Pasture Today?
Since Rachel was away, I took over the pasture moves for the cattle. Every day we move them to fresh grass. And of course, when we talk about grass and grass fed, we’re always talking about a broader category of …
Video: Thoughts on Pasture After a Nor’easter
I reflect briefly on managing grazing on very wet ground after a protracted period of stormy weather. Pasture management really is about understanding what we require of our land, and understanding what our land requires of us. Moving our herd …
Wrapping Another Pasture Poultry Season
Reaching the end of this year’s season for pasture raised poultry, and starting to think about next year when the grass starts growing again.
Salt for Grass Fed Cattle on Pasture
Discussions of large animal herds moving across landscapes typically describe the migrations in terms of the availability of food and water and the avoidance of predators. But there is another, often overlooked factor, in overland migration patterns: the search for …
Getting the Gobble Going
I made this short video out in the pasture with the turkeys, showing how I can get their group gobble going. Of course, on my first attempt they make a fool of me. But after that, they obliged with some …
Cooking Dave’s Fried Turkey Wings
Here’s a homemade recipe I’ve developed. When we started selling ground turkey, we used to have a problem selling all the turkey wings. The wing flats are too fiddly to be deboned and ground, so the butcher would pack them …