Basic life events that happen on a ranch.
Update: This has been the most popular post I have written, so I have gone back and updated a few things and added links to get products you need to make this project possible. Refrigerators can be a pain when the burn out. Their big, bulky and have Freon, which is apparently bad for the …
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In my first post: How to press your own apples to make cider, I explained how to extract apple juice from apples through a press. Now this follow up post is how to make hot, delicious apple cider out of the apple juice extracted from the pressed apples. Here are things you are going to …
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It’s taken me a couple years since I moved to the ranch, but I think I’m starting to like the fall out west better than back east. The first couple years we always went back to the east around the first/second week of October to visit family and friends and to see the changing seasons, …
Yogurt is so good for you. However, like most other dairy and health products at groceries stores yogurt has been adulterated to the point that most of the beneficial parts of yogurt is null and void. Pasteurization is the major killer of beneficial bacteria and enzymes which all yogurt sold at the store has been …
Coming from Missouri it was almost impossible to wrap my mind around this natural disaster called “range fires.” Everything is so wet in Missouri and grass growth is just enormous all summer long, but it doesn’t take much to understand how the range can catch on fire when you come out to the desert and …
This week is going to be hot… Like, hot, hot. Up till a couple days ago we have had a really nice cool spring/early summer. This has been an extreme blessing to us since we ran out of irrigation water the first week of June, so our meadows have been slowly drying out, but due to some …
Breakfast, I believe, is my husband’s favorite meal. He loves the way I cook lunch and supper, but breakfast is what gets his day going and sets his pace. So what does this buckaroo eat every morning to get his day started? Well, according to diet fanatics, it’s a meal that will terrify cardiologist and …
Being a parent is amazing. The beauty of watching your child grow from a helpless infant to a crazy toddler is a pretty dramatic event. Our daughter Cecilia is only 19 months old and astounds us everyday. I think the most amazing thing that we see is what a big help she is (and is …
Our chickens live in style. They enjoy movement and new ground, so we decided to take an old horse trailer and make it into our moveable chicken coop.Now I wracked my brain for a long time trying to figure out how to make a moveable chicken coop. We thought about buying an old camp trailer, …
Are you confused with all the terminology about beef? Grain finished, grass fed, natural/organic beef and grass finished might be making your head spin as you go shop through the grocery store and your not sure which one is the best for you. Here’s a simple way of explaining the differences. Grain Finished-The Majority of …