The U.S. House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry held a hearing on NAIS, the National Animal Identification System a few days ago. I was alerted to this by Shannon Hayes of Grass-fed Cooking. It appears that the Omnibus Appropriations bill includes funding for NAIS, which is a program that if mandated, will have terrible [...]

The view this morning… It’s now sunny and beautiful – I’ll try to post another photo later today. I think our biggest worry now is the fact that with 12 inches of snow on the ground, the wire keeping the steers in is much closer to the ground than before. Hopefully some of the snow [...]

For a long while, I’ve been meaning to post some of our favorite recipes here, and I’m finally getting around to it. The first one is below. We’re including our hamburger recipe in our Spring newsletter which will be posted in the next day, and I’ll try to post recipes with greater frequency from here [...]