• In case you were wondering….

    ….we’ve finally herd from grandson, Church, explaining he hadn’t written because he’s been busy herding fish and stringing thousands of feet of wire on Jim Gerrish’s Idaho ranch.  The picture (click to enlarge) shows a moose sharing Church’s fishing hole. I hadn’t carefully thought out the possible ramifications of this summer job.  Our grandson’s letter had three very specifics instructions to us on improving our grazing techniques! Today, he’s taking a break and attending a Gerrish lecture on real food and nutrition in a nearby town.  We were just a bit surprised that Jim has to pay someone to get an audience.  Just kidding, Jim, just kidding!

  • Free range pigs….

    ….well, we hadn’t planned it that way.  At least, not yet! But these two piglets must have overheard me say I’d like to try letting some pigs roam our woods, gorging themselves on acorns to their heart’s content. In any event, despite the picture, they’re on their own.  But they do come home twice a day to snack on the non-gmo corn.  Getting hard for them to sneak under the fence, though.  We’re going to have to leave the gate open for them.  Maybe, one of those pet entrances they put on garage doors? The danger isn’t really that they’ll run away; it’s that they’ll get into our vegetable garden. …