Think you know what causes climate change? I thought the major cause is fossil fuels. You did too, right? What's causing the drought and forest fires in the west? Could it be - how we're farming in the midwest?!
Here's one of the activities required if you choose to raise sheep. We thought it kind of us to warn you what you're getting yourself into if you had romantic notions of sheep-raising. :)
This time of year is especially tumultuous for an animal husbandry outfit like us... (We've spent some time holding baby lambs in our arms in front of the stove, and in years past, kept a calf in the bathtub.)
What's an average day-in-the-life for Cory Bierman, the other half of the Twisted Oaks Meats family team? One day last December I followed him around to find out. "Mostly I'm fixing things," he says. "But today I am putting up temporary fencing and moving the herd to fresh pasture."
Unless we pay $5000 per product to have an USDA inspector brought in to approve a new recipe and to have our packer print a new label, we're stuck with labels that list less-than-ideal ingredients.
When Jamie told me that Castration Day was coming up, I said, "You have to let me do a photo shoot, so I can show and tell everyone about it." She wasn't sure you'd want to see that. But since I am super interested, so I figured you would be too.
When we told our customers that I was going to do a photoshoot of Castration Day, Teresa asked if we'd save them for her. "Of course, you can have them!" we said. But please, tell us how and why you've come to appreciate this special, special part of the animal. And so she did. Here is her fascinating and elegant response in full.
What are you eating every day? A big salad with 30 wild greens, or nothing but white bread with antibiotics smeared on it?
No antibiotics, no hormones, no grains - just a salad-bar of wild greens went into the making of this food. So it's chock-full of digestible vitamins, minerals including: A, E and K, B12, B3 and B6, iron, selenium and zinc.
We're so proud of this.
I would like the opportunity to introduce myself to those whom I haven't met yet. And since we're in our busiest season, I thought I'd just make a short clip with a BIG announcement!!
What is it like to raise grass-fed animals when it's freezing outside for a long period of time? It ain't easy: but we manage. :)
