• Attention, Michelle!!!

    ….your campaign for healthier eating doesn’t hold a candle to the rest of the world.  For one thing, GMO foods are banned most places in Europe and when they eat, they eat lots of meat….and fat. We were reading Lois Aylestock’s Facebook page—she and her husband Doug own Blue Ridge Meats, our butchers—and that’s where I lifted this photo….and also an article about the school lunch program in France.  Made me want to enroll. http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14845/what-french-kids-eat-for-school-lunch-it-puts-americans-to-shame.html

  • Just curious….

    ….we were filling a water tank the other morning when this young heifer came along to see what we were doing. She was a long way from the herd and we enjoyed her company.  She’s A133 and a granddaughter of both Rotokawa 688 and 667.  Her dam is Thistle Hope; sire, Thistle Hill Reality. At 10-months, she’s not for sale….not yet.  We keep our animals until they’re at least two before we part with any.  It does remind me, though, that soon Wooz and I will be going through our annual battle over who stays and who goes. If you’re looking for a heifer, bred or open, you may want…