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Heeler Puppies Are Growing Fast! 😍
Our wonderful litter of 9 Australian Cattle Dog (Heeler) puppies are growing like weeds! Already 5.5 weeks old, they are strong, healthy, adorable little creatures showing great promise as future working and companion dogs. We are SO proud of their momma, Jette, who...
Farmer Marie Report: Celebrating New Life on the Farm!
Dear Farm Family, Get ready to dive into the latest happenings on our beloved farm! Farmer Marie held down the fort during the winter months, managing the farm alone for 4 months over winter while Farmer Steve was in Australia. Now, it's time to catch up on all the...
Sustainability Saturday 🌳 🐟 CREP Project Installation
Here's a few pics of our CREP project installation. Can't wait to see it in a few years when the shrubs and trees are a bit bigger! These areas first had invasive species and decades of illegally dumped trash removed. Then, were planted with native shrubs and trees...
The Story of a Farm is one of Beginnings and Endings
A farm is truly a microcosm of life as a whole. Magnified and in your face all of the time. Things that some people only witness a few times in their whole lifetime can happen multiple times in one day on a farm. Birth. Life. Death. Birth…Life…Death. It is...
Fun Farm Fact Friday 🐄❤️ Beef Cuts
Understanding the entire pasture to plate process is (in my opinion) vital for raising the best beef possible for our customers. Today's focus: Cuts of beef! Allllll about them - what they are (there are lots of multiple names for many of the cuts…talk about hard to...
Fun Farm Fact Friday 🐄❤️ Raising Cows on Grass is Hard Work
Raising grass-fed beef isn't as simple as just throwing cattle on grass where they magically get fat! There's a lot more energy, time, knowledge, and thought process behind it. Every time we move the cows to fresh pasture, we mow down what they haven't eaten. This...
The Circle of Life
Slaughter day is always a hard one. Watching a life end is as emotional as watching one begin, in very similar, but also different ways. Especially when it means saying an earlier than anticipated goodbye to a very special friend. The meat from the two beef we...
Fun Farm Fact Friday: The Importance of “Lick”
When you're checking fences, water troughs, refilling "lick" tubs for the cattle is important. As well as admiring pretty pastures with my happy little work buddy, Tux! ❤️ 😊 "Lick" is an essential supplement for our cattle. Ours is salt with a mixture of bio-available...
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
800 first cutting small bales, 250 second cutting small bales, and 20 great big third cutting bales put into our old barn this summer and fall, plus the 122 wrapped haylage bales stored outside, and we are all set on our put up forages for winter '20-21 feeding....