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Sand Creek Farm had a seminar this past weekend on raising milk cows that my mother, my Hubs and I attended. It was certainly like drinking from a firehose, though the class was only a few hours long. Some highlights: - Jerseys and Guernseys have the highest levels of A2 milk. A2 (versus A1) is a [...] From my weekend at Sand Creek Farm. It’s always a pleasure to see my friends there… Who can resist such pretty brown eyes? The sun rising over the fields The hay, frozen and full [...] This weekend I attended a class on home butchering at Sand Creek Farm. It was amazing and much less intimidating or gross than I ever imagined. We went from live animal to cut up pieces over two days. Ben and Alysha had some of their Amish friends down from Ohio, the one gentleman is a butcher [...] I headed up to Sand Creek this weekend to teach another soap making class. This one went MUCH more smoothly thanks to my preparation and thinking ahead this time. I had five students, everything was prepared and ready and we finished class in just about 2 hours. I’m not worried about the time, more worried about [...] For anyone interested, a half a pig turns out to be 141 pounds of meat and looks like this: 4 x 5# bags of pork fat (mm lard!) I love farms. I know it sounds so cliche, but I don’t mind the work. I don’t mind the long, never-ending list of things to do. Working long and late. Because to me, that kind of work is useful, productive. You go to sleep tired knowing that you DID something today and that you got things accomplished. [...] I had a crappy week. There’s nothing particularly bad that happened, it was mostly just a combination of things. Friends, work, waiting… Friday was particularly bad with the dreary weather and smashing my finger with the chopping block in the morning and being behind on all the things I wanted to get done. I managed to [...] |
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Bulk Meat
Now before anyone goes on about how meat is not sustainable, etc., etc., let me disclaim. I like meat. We eat meat. We’ve got friends who raise grassfed beef and pastured, whey-fed pork. Coming from the standpoint of simple math, buying meat in bulk is good. You buy directly from the farmer, pay them for the [...]