As a farm animal vet I’ve often been asked, “Why is it that veterinarians don’t use natural treatments?” It’s true, very few farm animal...

Respiratory problems and life-threatening pneumonia in farm animals …. it can happen any season but most often in damp and chilly...

Working as a herdsman and later as a veterinarian led me to develop an herbal udder infusion for dairy cows. - Dr. Hubert J. Karreman I...

When we open up thick stands of trees to create silvopasture, our goal is pretty simple: To remove enough tree canopy in order to let...

Our farm recently decided to thin trees to allow more sunshine and to create a more varied, open and historically typical landscape near...

Tips for making butter, from a farm kitchen I told Vivian the other day to start calling me “Mama Butter Churner” because pretty much all...

We will miss you, dear Acorn, and may we all live and die with as much courage, grace and love as you embodied You will be missed, our...

Does your food create, restore, caress and nurture life in you and around you? I’m about to say a radical thing… Maybe two or three or...

Spring is so full of life. But it’s also life on the edge. This new ram lamb was born yesterday, our first out of a beautiful Katahdin...

Red lady bugs are repopulating our ecosystem and white is repopulating in our Jersey cows. How do we get more lady bugs and Island-type...

How we started raising calves on cows Gracie, my first heifer calf, was two days old in this picture. Mama Greeley is close by. My first...

Grass. It covers 2/3 of the world’s arable landmass and wants to be here. 2/3 of the world’s surface can’t grow corn, soybeans, broccoli,...

Have you tried grass-fed beef and found it wanting? A slight (or not-so-slight) aftertaste of swamp water with a note of fish? Was it...

It’s going to take some time to build relationships and develop skills. A seed takes longer to germinate than ordering take-out. It’s...

This pig is smiling. Life in the dirt is great. It’s better with organic whole food. Our pigs’ food is truly chemical free, which means a...

“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the...

Stock is the foundation of all that is good and holy and I can feel worn down, depressed, grumpy and out of every form of energy, and I...

Vivian at about six months old while I’m holding a goat named Doodle. Most days weren’t this picturesque, but the time Vivian spent on my...

Blue rounding up the sheep to show them the barn. Not pictured: cold rain. Let me just start off by saying that getting to spend our days...

We closed the cafe. We closed the farm store on Hwy 87. We said we are “moving back to the farm”… What does that even mean? Well, a lot...