We said goodbye to our steer Del recently and got a hearty thumbs up from the butcher.’ “Keep doin’ whatever you’ve been doin’,” he said. “It doesn’t get any better than this!” Del (short for Delmonico) had put on a good layer of fat during his 18 months with us, which must owe to our […]
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When we see a nice piece of beef chick on sale, we bring it home and turn it into chili. I run the beef through the meat grinder then brown it in a heavy pot. Remove the beef, clean out the pot and sweat plenty of diced onion plus several cloves of garlic, chopped fine. […]
Our Jersey heifer Emily took a big first step toward motherhood yesterday. When we noticed she was cycling, we called Joe Hamilton, who arrived around dinnertime to inject the sperm of an Angus bull. You might remember Joe. He’s the guy who sheared our sheep earlier in the spring. That’s his sideline. By day, he […]
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