It was a little after 5 am yesterday when I was startled awake by a blast of thunder reverberating up and down the canyon. Then the rain started in on my tent fly. It was time to get moving and check on the cattle. First, I checked on the horses in the makeshift corral we had built for them here at …
Ready for the Ranges
We've been working hard getting ready for the trip to high ranges. Today we go through the beeves and decide which ones stay at home, and which ones head up to the mountains. They'll walk and graze over 100 miles through of the summer in over 70 square miles of wilderness. Horses need shoes on their …
Wild Range, Wild Beef
It was a rotten time and place for a wreck. Daughter Emily had already gotten bucked off her mare quite roughly (shredded her new jeans!), and now this! It was our annual Mother's Day picnic on horseback up on the high ranges a few miles above the ranch. We'd eaten our hot dogs (yes, they were …
Why Grass Matters
Newsletter from May 5, 2015 There's new snow on the rocky crest of the Lemhi Range today. It's a fine landscape to watch the sun rise over as we are below normal on both mountain snowpack and rainfall. Our grass does look great, as do our ranges, but many folks in the west are in dire straits, …
We Say Goodbye to an Old Friend
Newsletter from May 2, 2015 Unfortunately, living on the land is being around both life and death. I lost a good friend last week—an always faithful companion. It was my Morgan mare Missy. I had been watching her pretty closely, because I could tell she wasn't doing well. We let our old …
Photo of the Day: Working Draft Horses
Jingle and Belle pull the brush out on pasture to spread manure and increase the growth rate of spring grass. …
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