I am a hoarder… of clean food. 80 lbs of rhubarb, some turned into preserves and canned, the rest chopped and frozen. Grown by our chemical-free produce farm partner, now stored away to enjoy throughout the year 😊

Saturday breakfast ☀️ - Heritage wheat sourdough bread, lathered with raw A2 greek yogurt & rhubarb preserves - Duck egg stewed in tomatoes, topped with Raw A2 feta & dried basil - Green beans - Coffee, raw goat milk & maple syrup #nourished#

Some find goat milk easier to digest, likely because: - it is naturally A2A2 - has smaller fat globules that can be easier for the digestive system to break down - ~2X more MCTs (16% vs 8% in cow milk) - more similar to human milk composition

My most viewed social media post with 13.2 million views is this video of me feeding my chickens beef meat scraps 😂 I posted it 3 years ago to demonstrate that chickens are not vegetarians (Non-vegetarian fed eggs ™️) since many labels at the store use “vegetarian fed, which really just means the livestock were raised in large barns eating corn and soy.

One of our Amish produce farmers cools their produce after harvest in a ~43 deg F walk in fridge that is chilled by a room filled with hundreds of ice bricks that they gathered all winter long from a nearby lake.

You realize that cows are part of the solution to fixing many of our environmental problems… right? Roughly 95% of our food depends on healthy soil. And that soil didn’t just appear overnight. The same grazing animals people blame for destroying the environment helped build the fertile grassland soils that produce much of our food today. Healthy grassland ecosystems evolved alongside massive herds of grazing ruminants (like bison, buffalo, elk). These animals intensely grazed and impacted the land for short periods before moving on, allowing pastures long periods of rest and recovery. That natural cycle helped recycle nutrients, stimulate plant growth, build organic matter, support the natural carbon and water cycles, and gradually created the rich living topsoil our food system depends on today. Unfortunately, much of modern chemical-intensive industrial agriculture is now burning through that topsoil. The FAO estimates that 33% of the world’s soil is moderately to highly degraded, and globally we lose up to 37 BILLION tons of topsoil every year. But just like soil was built before… it can be rebuilt again. And properly managed grazing animals can help do exactly that 💪🏼 🐮 In regenerative grazing systems, cattle are moved frequently across pasture to mimic those natural migratory patterns: > intense grazing > manure deposition > hoof impact > long periods of pasture recovery The cows graze the top portion of grasses, keeping plants in an active vegetative state where they continue pulling carbon from the atmosphere and feeding soil microbes through root exudates. Meanwhile, their nutrient-rich manure and urine return fertility directly back to the land (Mother Nature’s fertilizer). So modern conversations shouldn’t simply be: “eat less meat.” It should be: “How is our food (both plants and animals) being produced, and what is it doing to the soil?” Cows aren’t inherently destroying the environment. When properly managed, they can help restore it!

There are more microbes in a teaspoon of rumen fluid than total humans on this planet. So cows out on pasture is the best probiotic for the living soil microbiome beneath our feet.