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January 6, 2012

The Difference Between Grass Fed Beef and Grass Finished Beef

October 25, 2011

Grass Fed means that the animals have been fed grass, but not exclusively. Their diet may have been supplemented with grain, but they were on pasture and were eating grass. Grass Finished means that the animals were eating only grass and received no extra supplementation of grain. And now you know!

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Photos from the Food Expo

October 3, 2011

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Canoeing on the Lake

August 16, 2011

It is a little know fact that we have a lake on our land. Not a great lake, but a lake nonetheless. It is an old peat bog that burned out a hundred and thirty years ago and has now filled with water. Now at about 100acres, it holds a tremendous amount of water. It [...]

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Ground Beef

March 5, 2011

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Digging Carrots

September 29, 2010

Lori posted over at Healthy Organic Mom about digging carrots with the 4 little kids today. Go check it out. She took some really great photos that made the nice Indian summer day come alive! Where was her husband? Going round and round and round and round….

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Fall 2010

September 29, 2010

I am off to the field to cut our swath grazing over the next few days. I wanted to share what I get to look at over the next few days. Even better than the view? It is going to be warm!!!

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Eating the Harvest!

September 27, 2010

Joey planted some corn earlier in the year. Not a big patch, but just a few ears. When he got home from school today, he grabbed an ear and took it into the house. He filled a pot with water, turned it on high, and a few minutes later, he sat down to eat a [...]

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Out with the Old

September 21, 2010

It is sad to be tearing down a piece of history, especially when it is a piece of your families history. But what can you do? The barns were ready to fall apart and collapse. It would have cost a lot of money to fix them up to the point where they were safe to [...]

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Would you drink this?

September 20, 2010

While cleaning up those old barns, we found a little surprise. A half drank bottle of Haig and Haig whiskey. We have no idea how long it has been in the barn – our guess is at the very latest 1970. Probably earlier. The neat thing? It is half drank and you can smell the whiskey through [...]