Comfort Food: Home Style Pot Roast

Grass Fed Beef, Recipes

I love chuck and arm roasts since they come from the most used muscles on a cow. Remember the equation: heavily used muscles = tougher meat = more flavor = cheaper cut less used muscles = more tender meat = less flavor = expensive cut Home Style Pot Roast Ingredients:...

Spinning Yarns: Fiber Arts for the Fall

Animals, Seasonal Living

As the temperatures drop our sheep look more and more in their element. The winter is a happy, happy time for the sheep. They work all year to grow a great fleece and it comes in mighty handy as the temperatures dip. I am looking forward to a great fleece harvest next...

"Plenty – Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet"

Book Reviews, Eat Local

If you’re determined to eat locally, you might enjoy Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. The couple embarked on an experiment to spend a year eating only what they could grow, gather, or purchase from a 100 mile radius...

"The Cook and the Gardener"

Book Reviews, Recipes, Seasonal Living

Although set in the French Countryside, Amanda Hesser’s book The Cook and the Gardener holds many lessons and much encouragement for Americans seeking to tie their living more closely to the land. Over the year she served as a cook in a chateau in Burgundy,...

Angel’s Puppies

Animals

Angel, our beautiful Great Pyrenees, is pregnant. She seems to be about 35-40 days into the pregnancy and we are so excited about the coming puppies. Many of the puppies are already spoken for and that helps us to plan for puppy sales. We will train several of the...