Springtime Dexters

Springtime Dexters

Reserve Your Springtime Dexters Now We have 3 cows who will deliver in the next month or two.  One of them is “Girlfriend.”  She can no longer nurse her calves, so I get to bottle feed it.  Bottle feeding a calf twice a day is a chore.  The benefit to...

Poop in the Soup

How about some “Poop”in your Soup? This is one of my “awareness posts.” Many people are not aware of how modern food winds up on their plates and it’s my joy to bring you this moment of enlightenment. Most of us would never knowingly eat...

Local Food Growers Reprint

Local Food Growers in Alabama Studies have shown that local food can help with locally developed allergies.  This idea is revised for publication 04/28/2013 We have had a few problems getting Facebook to accept the blog posts, so some of our friends have asked that we...

How Cows Saved America

Cows Saved America If you read the histories of the early settlers of America you can’t help but be amazed at how precarious their lives were. Starvation was a real possibility. The one event that seemed to have made the difference was the importation of Jersey...

Cheap Food Costs Too Much

Cheap Food Is Not Cheap When You Count the Medical Bills It Entails One of the paradigms of American farming is that the farmer has always been grossly underpaid. The people who buy the foods produced do so on a wholesale basis. They contrive artificial ways to...