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- The Things We Say During Cattle Work
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Author Archives: jericacadman
Cook-at-Home Challenge: What’s for dinner?
I will meal-plan for you this month! Hopefully you got to read a bit about our upcoming Cook-at-Home Challenge introduced in our last newsletter. I know there are so many of our readers that have said, “I want to eat … Continue reading
Will this get you back into the kitchen?
We want to help you get back into the kitchen! It’s been a CRAZY month so far! Matt took a brief trip to the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association meeting for larger scale producers (apparently we qualify! 😉 ). It … Continue reading
Why Pasture-Raised Meats? They fatten on the right stuff!
Here’s the third installment–if you’re here, you’re a trooper! I appreciate you taking the time to educate yourself on these very important issues. Why Pasture-Raised Meats… What have we learned so far? My first article was some discussion of why … Continue reading
Posted in The Price of Real Food
Tagged antibiotics, arsenic, chicken, e. coli, MRSA, poultry, ractopamine, turkey
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Why Pasture-Raised Meats? No Arsenic
Why Pasture-Raised Meats? No Arsenic… Last time, we talked about why we (Matt and Jerica) chose to pursue eating and producing animal products (meats, bones, fats, eggs, etc) because they are more nutrient-dense and digestible than vegetables. For a sick … Continue reading
Why Meats?
I have some food for thought for you to ponder as we begin to answer some of the Big Questions that surround what we, the Cadmans, do and why we do it here at Shady Grove Ranch. I’m going to … Continue reading
New Lower Pork Prices
New Pork Pricing We started this ranch from nothing a short 6 years ago. It’s been an intense, never-die experience that is harder than we ever imagined. It may not seem like it, but we are still tiny in terms … Continue reading
Hog Killin’ Time
It’s almost hog-killin’ time. It is likely that most of our ancestors just a generation or two back participated in a yearly community effort to put up pork for the winter. Here in Jefferson, it’s mid-October, and we’re still seeing … Continue reading
Farm Store Kickstarter Project
Farm Store Kickstarter The cat’s out of the bag–we’re finally building a farm store! Our store will provide a pleasant and convenient place to shop here at the farm. It will include a commercial kitchen, which will allow us to … Continue reading
2016 Turkey Time
I find it to be a great comfort that we get to start thinking about the winter holidays in the dog days of hot East Texas summer. July means turkeys are already on pasture, foraging away to build up the … Continue reading
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Meet James and Anna!
Here is a fun article for you. Our apprentices, James and Anna, arrived to the ranch way back in March of this year from South Korea (after a week of visiting James’ family). We had planned to let them transition to … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Life
Tagged apprenticeship, arizona, Chickens, choretime, garden, pigs, south korea
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