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…
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…
20,000 lbs of dry matter (grass) is required to grow a market weight steer. View the pictures below to see how we do this. Beef, as a staple food, has…
Straight Up Outside Catholic Worker Farm works with God’s creation to produce a quality product right here in Southern MN. Food from our farm shop is an environmentally safe way…
The input of manure on our regenerative, grass farm. There are two things dominating winter life for the care of cattle: “Scraping the lot” and “bedding down the loafing shed.”…
Forget keeping up with the Jones’ and start keeping up with yourself. Recent events are pushing many over the edge. But hold on, I’m not wanting to start a political…
Post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Often times, when a person moves out to the country, they find themselves with many dying or…
Your first country home doesn’t have to be your last. Moving to my husband’s 6 acres was daunting, to say the least. Turning onto what I used to call dirt…
During shelter-in place, Nick and I spent some time thinking about the things we have downsized and what else we could change in order to reduce our carbon/debt footprint (while saving the turtles.)