Woodland Ridge Farm & Learning Center

09/15/2026

Greg Gunthrop has been a primary contributor to the Farm Builder Entrepreneur group.

What he says is factual. Nothing to be done about decades of complacency in terms of what we feed ourselves vs what they feed us.

BUT

Folks wanting choice to eat clean and local increase in number daily. Responsibility and opportunity shifts more for rural people.

09/13/2026

A hisrory lesson that is well researched and well presented. Never presented that I have heard.

The question is will it be presented in the history of our People being written now?

09/05/2026

We've been studying and practicing Regenerative Ag in two centuries.

We're so grateful at the ever expanding scope of really good materials and practitioners for study by anyone interested in growing food for better family, neighbor and customer welfare. J&L Green has been an excellent info source and role model for all that.

In the 1990's Wendell Berry wrote about the need for relearned Agricultural Cultures where folks understood their rights in the culture, sure, but more importantly they better understood their individual responsibilities.

Individual responsibility in the family, in the farm and neighbor group or no matter the size of the group encompassed in the Agricultural Culture. Convenience and production occurring way outside of consumer sight have trained folks that they don't have any responsibility.

We are long time advocates for rural people relearning how to feed ourselves, our neighbors, and our communities. The thoughtful reestablishment of Agriculture Cultures and linking them together seems like productive work to us.

09/03/2026

More new farmers needed, thinking just like this.

Get to know them and know the quality of life that keeping clean, healthful, Farm Food on your family table brings.

09/03/2026

Well, there you go.

Our best advice is KNOW & SUPPORT the farmers where you live.

09/02/2026

Coherent, clarification,conversation in the cattle field.

From a pair clear headed thinkers explaining their view of our BIG FED GOV response to beef the US People eat.

From our perspective that response at best is near sighted. The response has few elements toward successful farmers making a living producing clean local meat families who want to CHOOSE to eat meat more farm direct.

However US consumers may have some limited ability to buy imported pink slime mixed with excess fat garnered from US cattle. We will call the meat substance cheaper hamburger.

09/01/2026

This is a pretty clear description of yesterday's Secretary of Ag announcement of Ranchers First Initiative and the focus areas of that action.

JUST ANNOUNCED...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins has announced the Ranchers First Initiative, a broad package of actions aimed at rebuilding America’s cattle herd, strengthening independent ranchers, and putting American-raised beef at the center of our food supply.

With the U.S. cattle herd at a 75-year low, the initiative focuses on several key areas:

• Supporting heifer retention with new risk-management tools designed to help producers rebuild their breeding herds.
• Strengthening local and regional meat processing through new loan programs and efforts to improve the long-term stability of independent processors.
• Prioritizing American beef in federal food purchases, including schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions.
• Supporting beginning and veteran farmers and ranchers with expanded access to loans, insurance, conservation programs and other resources.
• Helping ranchers recover from natural disasters by expanding conservation program flexibility.

The initiative builds on USDA efforts announced over the past year to expand grazing access, strengthen domestic processing, invest in independent slaughter facilities, increase domestic fertilizer production, improve transparency through the Product of USA label, and bring more American-raised beef into school meals.

At its core, the message is clear: rebuilding the American cattle herd requires putting American ranchers, independent processors, and domestic beef production first.

08/27/2026

We love what these folks at Triple Oaks Farm PMA are doing to bring clean, delicious and nutritious Farm Food directly to folks who care deeply about the food they feed their family.

I want to visit them and see more closely what they are doing to heal their land and to feed direct Farm Food to happy healthy families.

God bless the states not committed to blocking families and farmers from freely exchanging food of known origin and quality and perpetuating industrial systems that feed us that which doesn't help make us well.

08/26/2026

To the powers that be.

Please stop blocking our ability to CHOOSE to eat meat that is produced, processed, distributed, and cooked where we live.

EVERYBODY ought to have the right to make the CHOICE what they eat. Every farmer and every homesteader should have the right to CHOOSE to raise food to feed their family and their neighbor's family, too.

Is that little bit of pursuing our happiness resonable?

05/04/2026

Food supply elements eliminating non food additives from their products.

That's good.

Steak & Shake 100% grass fed beef in June.

That is good too.

ALDI USA is eliminating 44 additional ingredients from its private-label products—including select artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, and sweeteners—expanding its restricted ingredient list from 13 to 57. Other companies should follow their lead.