Molly bought her first dairy sheep 4 years ago. Mollarella was an amazing, no history, Craigslist find, productive ewe! She’d lamb...

We’ve celebrated the 4th of July and are officially plunk in the middle of Ozark summer. Days in the 90-100, nights 70-80. Blah!!! But!...

We made 30lbs of cheese, 30 pounds of butter, as I’m carrying our 13th child. I am neither a martyr or a saint, I am not oppressed, I am...

Is it really a cheese? Or do we just call it that because Carmelized Whey With Cream takes too long to say? If you’ve ever made cheese,...

Day 2 of A Very Cold January. The snow stopped early this morning leaving us with 5-6" of un-meltable powder. The warmest temp today was...

So, several years ago a new friend introduced us into Black Walnut Syrup. It was AMAZING!! They had made several gallons on their farm in...

Are you? Will you ever be truly “ready”? Do you enjoy cows? What are your resources? Infrastructure? Children? Spouse? Beef cattle?...

Jerseys. The breed every homestead is looking for. Jerseygive tons of cream, are all a2/a2, and are amazing thrifty grassfed only cream...

Covered with a multitude of molds. Red, blue, mucor, grey…it’s a mess. And SO delicious!! Far superior to the best Camembert or Brie I ...

In the beginning success may have seemed well within reach. A2/A2 milk is $10+ in the stores, mini Jersey heifers are $4000+ at just...

Grassfed dairy

Making cheese at home like normal… There is an even, balanced, pace. Fill the pan and add the culture, start a load of laundry, clear the...

Intro to our cows… I like to be orderly, so we’ll begin with Ayrshire. Ayrshire are historically native to Scotland and much of Europe....

Why does a recipe take three times the effort the first time it’s made? Or driving a new road in the dark take longer than the curvy...

An observation of popular demand. A2/A2 milk. We first heard of the A2/A2 milk protein at a Acres USA conference probably 12-13 years...

Once upon a time, far, far away in the deep forests of the Boston Mountains there lives a boy and his sister. These two children, lived...

From before her earliest memories she heard the creak of wooden aging boards, her mother’s singing in the cave, and tasted the rich full...

There it all is, knives, saw, steel, roasts, steaks, grind, and waste. The biggest snowstorm in the year we chose to host our first Beef...

We are VERY excited to put on our first class featuring charcuterie skills! Simply put, Charcuterie means cured meat. But it can mean so...

Have you ever heard of Eleanor the Tenth? Or maybe Eleanor X? Perhaps there never was one in classical history. But there is one in the...