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Jolly, everyone’s favorite fluffy fat pony, is h

Jolly, everyone’s favorite fluffy fat pony, is here to say HAPPY THURSDAY 🎉🎉🎉 The weekend will be here before we know it! Woo! 🐴🙌🏻

What are you looking forward to this weekend??

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Do you know EXACTLY where your meat comes from and

Do you know EXACTLY where your meat comes from and how it was raised/produced?

I do 🙋‍♀️ Our chicken is homegrown. Our pork is homegrown. Our beef is purchased from a local small scale farmer. The only meat I still buy in store is lunch meat and the occasional breakfast sausage.

These chickens have spent the last few months growing, foraging, roaming and enjoying life. They have been given the utmost care and respect we can provide. We work hard to ensure they are happy, healthy and living a good life. In a few days, they will be humanely dispatched and will bless our freezer and the freezers of our family. Is it a little sad? Yes. Do I feel a little bad? Yes. Do I also feel good knowing that they have had a great life and that my food is healthy and humanely raised? Absolutely and that’s what makes this process worth it.

These birds serve a vitally important function of feeding my family. I thank them for the service they provide my family as sustenance. I vow to ensure that for as long as I eat meat, I will do so in a way that is humane, sustainable and healthy for human and animal.

Summer rides ❤️🐴 When the heat starts to h

Summer rides ❤️🐴

When the heat starts to hit, I try to get a ride in before noon so that it’s not as hot. It’s more fun for me and less strenuous for my Charlie. After our ride, he gets a good long cool down and a cold hose down to beat the heat.

Summer weather can be tough on horses. Lots of fresh water and shade is vital to keeping them comfortable and healthy.

Our little garden 🥰🌱🌿 It never fails to

Our little garden 🥰🌱🌿

It never fails to amaze me how fast plants grow and produce. Our tomatoes are just starting to bud and I simply can’t believe they are the same plants I started from seed in my basement a few months ago.

Our garden isn’t the biggest or the prettiest or the most Instagram worthy but it’s doing it’s job and growing us food…. At the end of the day that is most important.

Nothing but the best for the most spoiled horses a

Nothing but the best for the most spoiled horses around 🥰

I did a massive amount of research trying to find the perfect slow hay feeder. Charlie and Jolly both like food a little *too* much… so I wanted something that would slow them down and prolong our hay. After all, hay is expensive so I don’t want to see it wasted and also, I want them to be at a healthy weight. I also wanted something that kept their neck in the natural eating position… did you know that horses can actually develop neck, jaw, tooth and stomach problems from eating with their head and neck up? They are built to have their head down in a natural grazing position while eating. It can be very unhealthy for horses to eat with their head and neck up for extended periods of time so a hanging hay bag was not an option I was willing to explore. I did not want anything metal because I personally know of horses who have broken legs by getting them stuck in a metal hay feeder (and a broken leg on a horse is pretty much a death sentence). Thanks to the current price of wood, building one didn’t seem feasible either.

Finally, I settled on the @savvy_feeder 😍 It is made of sturdy plastic and has nothing to catch the horses or their legs so it met my safety standards. It also feeds from the ground, providing a natural eating position that is optimal for healthy horses. Lastly, it has a strong feeding grate that significantly slows down their eating and prolongs the hay I feed because it doesn’t get trampled into the dirt or pooped on and they can’t scarf it down.

They have had the Savvy Feeder for several days now and I am SO happy with the purchase and so are the boys!!

We grew this. Homegrown, farm fresh cauliflower.

We grew this.

Homegrown, farm fresh cauliflower. Right here in our greenhouse. I had absolutely no expectations when we added the cauliflower… we just planted it on a whim to see what happened. Which makes this homegrown vegetable such a fun surprise!

I can’t wait to harvest this once it’s ready and enjoy it as the first of our garden harvest!

Have you ever grown cauliflower?

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