The Future is Sheep
The Blackshirt Feeders cattle yard currently holds 50,000 head at full capacity, but when fully built out it will house four times that, which will make it the largest feedlot...
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The Future is Sheep
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The Great Old Ones
With apologies to H.P. Lovecraft and to any readers who find what follows idiotically abstruse. I have written in the past about mental strain of a limited diet, and lately...
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Local Fat
On occasion both Garth and I have been known to praise Simon Fairlie's book, Meat: A Benign Extravagance. For anyone interested in homesteading/permaculture/sustainability/food production, it deserves a place on the...
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Calorie Density
I've mentioned a number of times about the volume of roots I have to eat to get many calories. Here's a visual demonstration. The small stack of tallow on the...
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First Starts of the Year
Like any gardener, I’ve had both up and down years. I often can’t figure out why a particular crop fails or succeeds, and while I get better results every year,...
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Dessert?
I bartered a big bag of vegetables for 5 gallons of milk last week. I have a minor dairy intolerance, but it seems worth it to me to live with...
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Fisher Cat
Yesterday Alanna was looking out the window when she noticed an animal running down the stream bank. She called me over in time for me to get a look at...
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Excellent Pork
The bacon Garth cured is done now. The smokiness of the bacon is a little more "grill" than is ideal, but the meaty flavors are top-notch. We just had a...
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Grazing Pigs
I don't have any photos of my pigs grazing. They mostly rooted when I rotated them around the pasture last year and there is still snow on frozen soil here...
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The Meals of Just-ish, Part III: A Glass of Lukewarm Water Consumed in a Beige Room on a Mild, Slightly Overcast Day
Note: If you don’t understand what’s happening here, this post will bring you up to speed. As if the endless winter wasn’t punishment enough, the north has now begun bombarding...
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Breeding Dissension
The bull hardly came to my waist, a good foot shorter than the cows beside him. As they stood in a tight ring, peeling flakes of hay off of a...
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Shovels
I'm getting ready to go in the garden even though it was only 13 degrees this morning and the forecast still calls for temps nearer February's average I till most...
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At the Auction
It’s easy to complain about the homogenization of culture. As much as the internet allows niche communities to thrive, these are divorced from a specific geographical region. The monotony of...
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The Low-Grain/No-Grain Pig
In the paleo diet world much is made of the essential fatty acids omega 6 and omega 3. In case you don't read Mark's Daily Apple assiduously, these fats are...
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