The best beef in the world might come from old cows. It's day eleven of helping an 8,000-acre Montana ranch transition to the next generation. I'm standing in a field staring at two cows that were supposed to go to...
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Forty percent of American farmland is owned by someone over sixty-five. When a ranch doesn't have a successor, it doesn't get passed down. It gets sold. To a developer. To an investment fund. To someone who might never run a cow...
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Meet Caramel, our calm, capable lead cow with a generous streak, feeding her calves, other heifers, some lambs and our family! Hello all you lovely eaters! One of the reasons we first started farming was because we wanted to eat...
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Just another day in the Ozarks. Our herd moving to fresh pasture under open skies. Y'all, the beef industry is having what I can only describe as a "hold my beer" moment.Record prices? Check! Ranchers going out of business? Also...
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Friends, we've been suckered into buying food in two installments: the empty calories at the grocery store, then the missing nutrients at the pharmacy.The numbers make my blood boil. Since the 1950s, industrial farming has stripped 30-70% of nutrients from our food. Spinach has...
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