Snags – Charlie Brown Trees for Wildlife Or, Just Because You Suck at Equine and Timber Management Doesn't Mean You Can't be Awesome at Wildlife Management Snags – Standing Timber that Provides Critical Wildlife Habitat There are two dead oaks outside my kitchen...
How We Designed Our House Most of the time, if you want to live on your rural property, you have a few choices – build, remodel, renovate, and other options are available, like a tent, camper or a mobile home. (Of course there’s a chance that you have...
When You Literally Put the Mud in Mudroom The mudroom looks completely different in the summer. Whenever I go onto Pinterest or Houzz, and type in “mudroom”, there’s all these beautiful white rooms with book bag hooks, and cute little cubbies and...
Rotational Grazing 101 Whether you call it MiG – management intensive grazing – mob grazing, managed grazing, strip grazing or any of a half dozen other names, rotational grazing is a system of allowing animals to graze a pasture, then providing that...
A Few Differences Between Beef Cows and Dairy Cows This Red Angus cow has the muscularity, smoothness and femininity we like to see in beef cows. This stylish and productive Red and White Holstein is as near to perfect as a dairy cow can get. I was 23 when I moved to...
Animal Welfare – Cattle Manager’s Job #1 With our beef cattle (all cattle, as a matter of fact) we focus on three areas main to ensure animal welfare – adequate nutrition, herd health, and physical comfort and safety. When we’re talking about a...
Cattle Manager – Yeah, That’s a Thing – Intro This is the beginning of a three (or is it four?) part series of – You’re a What? A Cattle Manager? Left to their own devices, cattle can make some pretty poor decisions. They need guidance....
Replace those builder grade doors with beautiful, affordable, pound-able, slam-able antique doors Antique Doors – They’re Not Just for Backdrops Anymore Low-cost Builder's Grade Doors Lend a Mobile Home Feeling to Any House Reclaimed Antique...
Direct Marketing Beef Direct Marketing, CSAs and Grassfed Beef In addition to the more common means of marketing beef cattle, feeder calves, and as cull cows, direct marketing is another method of marketing cattle that can work in some locations, and for certain...
