‘Twas the night before Christmas & out on the ranch The pond was froze over & so was the branch. The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule. The kids were all home on vacation from school, And happier young folks you never did see- Just all sprawled...
Today I spent some time at the Texas State Fair working the ‘Bee Booth’ – lots of fun! We get to tell people about bees all day, and if you’ve ever asked me about my bees you know that isn’t hard for me to do. I really enjoy bees and...
Everything starts as an idea right? Well, we’ve had a garden in the past, however between moves, hot summers, more moves, and yada yada yada – well needless to say we’ve done very little in the way of gardening, and where we have done anything...
The food we eat is utterly dependent on oil. It seems absurd and hard to wrap your mind around it if you think your food comes from the grocery store shelf. Every bite of food required more “fossil calories” than what you actually take in! In fact, for...
It is astonishing how the dollar we spend on food is broken down – it is surprising how little of the dollar is the actual production of the food we ingest. The following data is from an Iowa State University study based on 2006 USDA data. The cost of food is...
Came home from work and a cow and a few goats were out. Tristan didn’t think the fence was working so he took the battery in to get it charged. A leaning cow can do wonders on a fence! Alex just kept going after that long grass and finally an insulator broke...
