This time of year our gardens may be covered with a bright blanket of snow, but now when gardening season seems so far away is actually the perfect time to design your garden layout. If you want the healthiest vegetables to grow in your garden, then looking ahead, creating real, long-term garden plans is a really…
I never really gave pasture management and rotational grazing any thought when we first started raising livestock. You just throw them in a pasture and they’ll eat. The grass will grow back and repeat, right? Same as a lawnmower. (Except you’re new mower doubles as fertilizer.) I’ve spent most of my life living in farm country,…
So you’re on your farm. Working real hard (and getting real dirty) to get good food into your body. But you’re not taking the time to take care of the outside of your body. (‘Cause you’re really busy.) But you should and today I’m going to tell you why and share over 50 recipes for…
I find it amusing as I think back to the dairy products I’ve learned to make over the years since having our first dairy cow. I started with the things I like the most and slowed my pace over the years until I gradually add in the skills of making things I don’t care for…
My heart (and belly) are so full man. My pantry is full too and my freezer is even fuller. And the maple wood of our island is now well-seasoned after the hog butchering workshop we hosted this week. I’ve extolled the virtues of raising and then butchering your own meat. (In fact I gave 7 compelling…
Learning to eat seasonally over the last few years has really spoiled me. Forget two to three times in a week, two to three times a season is all we will eat one particular meal before it’s time to move on. There is always something new and fresh for the palette to experience. So by about Day…