The switch to eating ONLY local food is daunting! It's easy to source vegetables from your local farmer's market in the summer time, but in the winter months the only…
The Weston A. Price foundation runs a site called RealMilk.com. It’s there that raw milk consumers can find a blog post called “Questions to Ask Your Raw Milk Farmer.” I…
Simple Recipes to Experiment with! Besides simply enjoying a glass of fresh, unprocessed milk from Straight Up Outside LLC, perhaps you've been thinking about experimenting with raw milk recipes. Raw…
Our small herd of dairy cows are 100% grass-fed, have A2A2 genetics, and are hormone/antibiotic free! Straight Up Outside LLC works with God’s creation to produce quality meat and raw…
Minnesota state law requires raw milk customers to buy directly from a farm and to bring their own containers! When you come to our farm, the farm shop is the…
Get rid of these 4 things to simplify your cooking. I’ve been cooking predominantly with a cast iron pan for a few years now and I’ve found that the cooking…
You’ve heard it said that “With great power comes great responsibility.” But outside of my superhuman ability to eat a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting, it’s hard to…
A beginner’s guide to a first float. When the summer solstice comes around, a day on the lake/river sounds like the perfect way to cool down! But for those of…
Inspired by Dorothy Day. We have started to live by the mantra that Safety is a False Idol. Mike Rowe famously stated that safety should be third (vs. first). And…
How can a human-dependent creature lead to happiness? While attempting to hit the road for a week-long Boundary Waters trip, I always seem to push off feeding and watering the…