My family used to go to the county fair every year when I was a kid. My mom would offer dozens of different vegetables and baked goods for judging, and we’d spend hours examining her competitors wares and smiling proudly over her blue ribbons on display. We’d also travel through the maze of animal stalls, [...]
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Meet Detroit (aka Puffy) and Kit, cousin heeler dogs. This is our dog Kit (a little dusty after wrassling with Detroit). She’s a purebred or almost purebred blue heeler (Australian cattle dog), and she’s about eight years old. Henry brought her home from work completely out of the blue one day in the summer of [...]
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My husband Henry is a farrier by trade. That’s a fancy way of saying he shoes horses. He completed Linn Benton Community College’s 14-week farrier school (now closed) in the spring of 2004, and has been a more or less full-time working horseshoer ever since. I should be clear here that I am not a [...]
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This post is already out of date (photos are from about three weeks ago). Hemphill Angus is now at the tail end of haying, so keep in mind that these images are a little behind the times. An exclusively grass-fed beef operation like Hemphill Angus is only as robust as its supply of good forage. Carol [...]
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Stu and Carol Stu and Carol are good farmers and good folks. Carol grew up in small-town Northern California in a highly resourceful cattle-ranching family. Stu is from Oswego, Oregon (before it was annexed into Lake Oswego). Both graduated from Oregon State University and were married soon after. Stu settled into a career in the [...]
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