Sustainability

So I told y’all about butchering the cow. Boy howdy is she tasty in tacos, casseroles, stews, burgers, liver and onions, and just about any other way you slice her (ha!). I’m also pretty sure her offspring holds a grudge. For weeks after we took Cholula into the butcher her daughter Vaquita kept causing trouble…

Before we moved to our homestead we purchased a longhorn cow from a neighbor through a herd share program. We arrived in Texas on the heels of the worst drought in recorded history, so needless to say keeping that longhorn fed was a pricey proposition. So we decided it was time to eat her. The…

I watch from the window as I feed our baby girl. These two boys, too old to be my babies and too young to be anything else, walk down the road toward their Papa to help build a chicken coop. Each boy wears a straw hat, but that is where the similarities end. The smaller…