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Recent Blogs
- An organization that trades secrets
- How to change the world…
- What are your thoughts on Artificial Intelligence in Farm Marketing? A brief survey…
- An “Eggsplanation” of Laying Flock Management
- A very repairful year so far
- Long John Gets a Job
- The Things We Say During Cattle Work
- Basket full of pills?
- Chinese Pork Is Better Than Ours
- Chinese Chicken?
Author Archives: jericacadman
Define Your Terms
You may know by now that we are one of those geeky homeschool families, where every discussion with the kids is a “learning opportunity.” It doesn’t help that Matt and I were shamefully nerdy before we had kids. Our poor … Continue reading
Posted in Grass-fed Beef, Truth in Eating
Tagged grass-fed beef, truth in advertising
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How to Keep from Going Gray
Not gray hair, mind you. I’m not sure there’s a cure for that, especially when you run a crazy ranch like we do! 😉 I’m talking about something else… As I cooked breakfast a couple of days ago, I noticed … Continue reading
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The Forgotten Flap
We changed butchers a while back, and just like moving to a new town, the habits and names for things vary from meat packer to meat packer. So from this new butcher, we got this new cut back from our … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking
Tagged crock-pot, farm to table, flap steak, new things, slow-cooking
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Becoming an Eggspert Isn’t Easy
This Egg-ing Thing is Tough! We’ve been raising laying chickens for going on 9 years now, and we find that the more we learn, the more there is to learn! Early Lessons in Raising Eggs on Pasture For example, one … Continue reading
The Right Knife
The Right Knife There’s nothing more challenging than cooking in someone else’s kitchen! You don’t know where anything is, and you often lack specialized cooking equipment that you’ve come to love and depend on. But the worst, once you’ve experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking
Tagged blade, chef, cutting meat, engineering in the kitchen, kitchen skills, knife, steel
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A Farm Adventure for Everyone
There’s a really neat opportunity coming up next weekend here at the ranch. We’re hosting another one of our fun farm tours… but there’s more! Last month, we had around 30 guests come visit with us to hear about our journey … Continue reading
2018 Turkey Season
Turkey Season Begins in 2018 It’s that time again—farmers have to talk turkey really early in the game because there are so many steps to raising a delicious Really-Pasture-Raised bird, and we raise a limited number each year and want … Continue reading
Meet Baby Daniel Luther!
Meet the Newest Farmer-baby! The day finally arrived when we got to meet our newest farmer baby! Late, as usual (all 4 of our other babies were way overdue when they were born!), so when baby #5’s due date came … Continue reading
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It might be a little tacky, but it’s just so fun!
One of the most special things about living this particular type of farm life is being able to be connected with our customers on a personal level. You share in a lot of the fun, the heartache, the struggles, and … Continue reading
Egg Processing with the Whole Family
I’m not sure what people envision exactly, when they think about the modern farm family’s daily farming tasks. It varies widely from farm to farm, of course, but for us, one task that we do very frequently together is collect … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged candling, egg grading, egg washer, Eggs, family, farm dog, hens, kids, pasture
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