• Farm

    Bringing the cows home

    We brought both groups of cows home a couple of weeks ago and it’s always my favourite day of fall. I love having my girls at home! We got another two weeks of grazing before the snow came, but hopefully we’ll get some more good grazing days with the warm temperatures predicted this week.

  • Food

    BEEF JERKY

    The perfect snack for a busy life! Great to include with your field meals as a hearty snack. I use ground beef. We had to put a bull down a couple years back, and we had him processed into ground beef. Waste not, want not! Ever since, I’ve been turning him into delicious things like beef jerky! If you ask me, it’s a crime to turn delicious steak into jerky. The secret to making this work with ground meat is a jerky gun. Mix your spices into the meat as per the directions on the package of jerky spice. I pick up pre-mixed jerky spice and cure packages from places…