WHAT WE STAND FOR
To be in the world, but not of the world, and to act in accordance with Nature and Nature’s God, the creator, and serve as stewards with the dominion over all earthly things as commanded by our creator. We proclaim the freedom to choose and provide for ourselves the types of foods, services and products that we think best for achieving and maintaining optimal wellness.
RANCH OFFERINGS (members only)
PASTURE RAISED BEEF
Have you ever had home-grown, pasture raised beef?
There is a huge difference between home-grown beef and the cuts you will buy at your local meat counter.
A2A2 DAIRY SHARES
You will have access to the farm fresh, real, raw whole milk, that will nourish you and your family. Each share of the herd entitles you to one gallon per week, half and multiple shares are available as well. The milk will be available here on the farm for pick up on your specified day, weekly.
GRASS-FED BISON
Most feel Bison is the most flavorful meat they have ever tasted. It has been said that it “tastes like meat used to taste”. Many notice a sweeter flavor than beef, which adds to the richness of the meat. It’s not “gamey” or wild tasting. Bison meat is just naturally flavorful and tender. It tastes great by itself and will enhance your favorite recipe.
EVERYDAY INGREDIENTS
RECIPES FROM THE RANCH
Follow along as we share some of our favorites from right here on the ranch. Tried and true, using common pantry staples, from our kitchen to yours!
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Traditions on the Farm
CONTINUE READING: Traditions on the FarmThis time of year always gets me thinking about the traditions of our ancestors. Our family has quite a few of them, from all over the world.
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November: Updates, Politics, Deep Thoughts and a Recipe.
CONTINUE READING: November: Updates, Politics, Deep Thoughts and a Recipe.I hope you enjoy these updates, thoughts on politics, other deep thoughts and a recipe?
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Spring Projects Abound! 5/20/23
CONTINUE READING: Spring Projects Abound! 5/20/23Life has been busy here on the farm this spring! We’ve been working through a long list that we made, and we’re making good progress.
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Rotationally grazed A2A2 Brown Swiss dairy herd share, grass-fed bison, pasture raised beef, eggs available for members. LISTED with the Raw Milk Institute since 2021, members of Weston A Price, and Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Email for info.
Bad news today. If you know us, you know that Bo is so special! Please pray for a miracle, or at least that we can have him with us feeling good for a while longer 🙏🏻
Check out our stories for some sweet memories. More memories are in the making too!
My grandma Lantagne was famous for her meat pie, or Tourtière, and I have her original filling recipe, but I use a crust recipe of my own.
This is a favorite with all of the the kids, but I only make it on Christmas Day (even though the kids would love it all year round).
When I bake meat pie, our home fills with the scent of childhood Christmases at grandmas. My aunts, uncles and cousins all crowded into my grandparent’s teeny tiny little house, a structure that used to be a one-room schoolhouse!
Unfortunately, all of our Christmases there stopped before the advent of cell phone photography, so I don’t have a picture to share. Or maybe that was actually a blessing, making my memories of it somewhat more precious?
More on the blog, including a recipe! Be sure to subscribe while you’re there. We’d love to have you ❤️
Part of the reason we chose Brown Swiss dairy cows was for their hardiness in the cold winter months. Even though they are so tough, we do what we can to make life in our climate a little more tolerable for them. Happy cows = more milk for us!
This morning was our coldest one yet for the season, but as chilly as it was (0° F, felt like -15° F), it’s likely to drop down as low as -20° F for short stretches in January and February, without the wind chill!
This is why we love using the pack barn method of shelter for the cows. What’s a pack barn you might ask? It’s a method of bedding their winter housing that utilizes layers of straw and wood shavings.
We start with a thick layer of clean, dry straw and as it becomes soiled, we add wood shavings and/or more straw over the dirty bedding. This creates a ‘lasagna’ type pack; straw, shavings, manure, straw, shavings, and so on…
As the layers of bedding compost (ferment) below the clean top layer, it produces heat that helps to keep the cows warm on days like today when temps are so frigid. They love it!
In the spring, when it’s pretty deep and well composted, Andy cleans out the shelter and we use that material to fertilize the land. Nothing goes to waste! 🌱
Pretty cool! (Or warm) 😉
Edited to add, Andy said he was about Nathan’s age when they started it, so about 40 years!
The canes are up at our sister farm on the highway- have you seen them yet???
Andy’s family has been farming in Delta & Menominee Counties for over 100 years! I’m not sure the exact year they started putting up the candy cane lights, but it’s been a local favorite for longer than the 28 years Andy and I have been together, at least.
Who loves this tradition as much as we do? 🎄Festive Silos – Harris Township, MI, USA
Check out the huge candy canes mounted to the ladders on these silos!
#upperpeninsula #aerial #Christmas #FestiveGlow #upperlimitsmedia
Even if I could legally do it, this is why we wouldn’tWhy I won’t and don’t sell butter?!? (We don’t sell any dairy but anyways….)
For the 14# of butter the made yesterday, it took around 36 gallons of fresh raw milk…
If I sold whole raw milk for the same pricing as other local raw milk producers in the state that would be $432-$720 in milk.
Using the low side of that, butter should be $30 per pound and that doesn’t take into the time separating the cream/milk and cleaning up, the time churning the cream to butter, the time washing and packing the butter, and the time cleaning up when done with the butter.
I don’t and won’t sell any butter.
#RawMilk
#RawButter
#FullFartMilk
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