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  • What to Know: Everything about Lamb

    by Ashley Gaura
    As someone with no history of eating lamb, besides that one Passover meal David cooked for me, when we knew that we wanted to sell lamb, I decided ...
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  • Beginning Farmer: Instagrammers I Love to Follow

    by Ashley Gaura
    David nor I have any farming background - like at all.  I have a great-aunt and uncle (and cousins) that own a farm in Indiana that we would visit,...

  • What to Know: Buying 1/2, 1/4, and whole beef

    by Ashley Gaura
    When selling at the Farmer's Markets this summer, a popular question was if we sold, "like a half cow?" With the unstable markets, inflation, and t...

  • What to Know: Rabies in the Wild

    by Ashley Gaura
    We had a pretty big scare the other day.  The kids ran to the hay barn and I was slightly behind them.  I heard them scooping up hay and I was worr...

  • What to Know: Real Food from Real Farmers

    by Ashley Gaura
    I was thinking the other day of the growth I've had as a "farmer".  I was like many in society, not truly knowing where my food came from, not know...

  • What to Know: Regenerative Agriculture and Our Summer Lots

    by Ashley Gaura
    We finally have moved our cattle out on summer pasture! They are excited about the fresh grass and access to roam.  However, a lot of people come o...

  • What to Know: Avian Flu Outbreak

    by Ashley Gaura
    The news coming out of nearby chicken farms is bleak.  In Jefferson County Wisconsin they had to kill off their entire flock of 3 million chickens....
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  • The Beginning Farmer: The Seasons of the Farm

    by Ashley Gaura
    Something I never knew until living on the farm is the different unofficial seasons.  When the weather changes for off-farm people, you can expect ...

  • What to Know: What Causes Different Types of Eggs?

    by Ashley Gaura
    When we first started selling at Farmer's Markets people would look at our display eggs and think they were fake.  There were so many colors and si...
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  • Beginning Farmer: Four Types of Fencing

    by Ashley Gaura
    When our cattle get out frequently, people start offering advice on how to improve it.  There are four typical ways of keeping cattle contained.  I...
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  • Beginning Farmer: What Makes a Horned Cow?

    by Ashley Gaura
    Recently five cattle got out from small hobby farmer, in a nearby town. The reporting on it was funny to me, as no one seemed to know what to call ...
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  • What to Know: How does Online Pickup work?

    by Ashley Gaura
    One of our most popular questions is how the online pickup works.  People are asking if they have to purchase online, what happens when they do, an...
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