Our great-grandmothers knew how to make lard! For many years, fat has had a bad rap, saturated animal fat worse than any other. No more. The tide has changed as evidence mounts that fat doesn’t make you fat. (There are many other sources—Google it.) Note: this blog post is from 2013! While we still render…
Border collies have always fascinated me from the time I first read James Herriot’s books about being a veterinarian in England many years ago. A number of his stories are about dogs, Border collies—working dogs—in particular. Now, we’ve raised sheep here on King Creek Farm, but not for many years. I can’t help but remember…
Pasture-raised pigs make darn good eating! Our son and daughter-in-law, who live on our farm, raised six Berkshire-cross pigs last year for close family members. I don’t think we’ve sat down a single time to ham, bacon, pork chops, or ribs where someone hasn’t said out loud, “this is the best pork I’ve ever had.”…
In like a lion; out like a lamb. That’s how March was in our region of British Columbia, Canada. Sunny shirt-sleeve days swapped out with bitter, windy, snowy days, but the warmer weather won more days than not. In March, I raked our huge lawn and cut/dug dry weeds, mostly burdock, from last year. Being…