Well, to get this Salad Bar Beef we must have pasture and cattle. We chose a small breed of old Irish cattle called Dexters, more on that later, and had to plant our pasture from scratch. The 10 acres that we fenced were producing soybeans and wheat last year and corn the year before. This [...]
What is Salad Bar Beef? “Salad Bar Beef” is a term used to describe cattle that have been fed a wide variety of grasses and legumes. The whole notion here is that we’re extending the old phrase “you are what you eat” to “you are what you eat, eats”. In other words, when you eat [...]
Hello, my name is Steven and along with Chris and our wives Geri and Natalie we are Franciscan Family Farms. Farming has always been in our family’s history and all around us but until this last year we haven’t really been farming. My wife and I have had horses for about 5 years and have [...]
Since our pigs have finished their job of turning over our packed manure inside the barn, last week, we put our three 3/4 red wattles out onto pasture – as you can see, this pasture has a heavy load of weeds… fortunately, they really seem to like eating the leaves off of them, and they [...]
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