DS Family Farm

05/02/2026

These little ones are crazy cute. Tell me why will this ewe only have one lamb the first year she gives birth but next year and into the future she will have twins or triplets? How does that work? Must be part of the created order. Things that follow the created order are “good” or “righteous”. Good job mamma ewe.

04/09/2026

Darn “contrails” messing up a beautiful sunset.
Hmmm, 🤔, I wonder where all those planes are going?

04/05/2026

Happy Easter!
John 1:29

03/31/2026

With a number above average temperature days we have about 6 inches of smooth brome coming up through the stockpiled forage. Brome is invasive to native prairies, but it is HIGHLY PALATABLE (I guess the kind of invasive to have if you have to put up with one).
Holistic Planned Grazing allows us to take advantage of this early burst of green in the pasture. With every bite of green, the cattle get a bite of brown stockpile grass. This keeps their rumen balanced (keeps the backend squirts in check).
While other cattle producers are feeding in dirt lots this time of year, we get to take advantage of the early green up as we grazed 24/7/365 days a year.
Cattle are created to do this, we just orchestrate it with our management.
This early graze on brome will set it back somewhat, but expect the herd will get a another bite of brome regrowth as we come back around.

03/19/2026

Regenerative Agriculture is about beneficial relationships. People and animals. Animals and the land. Plants and the soil. Soil and the underground community. Farmers and customers.
We appreciate our neighbors Brian and Jenny Brhel. We source extra finishing beef from their farm. These steers are raised in the same manner that we care and raise our animals. The extra steers this time of year allow us to take advantage of the spring flush and keep up with customer demand for American Certified Grassfed beef.
Thank you Brian and Jenny for caring for your land, animals and our community.

03/13/2026

Great day for a pasture visit. It didn’t take long for Buddy the Bull to warm up to the crowd… Buddy is always looking for a head rub.

03/03/2026

Ecosystem Basics

If you are interested in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health, Holistic Management, Animal Welfare, Sustainable Ag, Permaculture, Organic Production, Adaptive Management, Ranching For Profit, or anything connected to these related fields of thought, let's talk about the basics behind our resource base. We all need a piece of God's green earth to work with. Once we have secured that piece of land, we will find it in a certain condition or "form"....

If you are interested in Regenerative Ag, Soil Health, Holistic Management, Animal Welfare, Sustainable Ag, Permaculture, Organic Production, Adaptive Management, Ranching For Profit, or anything…

02/21/2026

Sunrise on a snowy rise.

01/20/2026

Safe and Healthier

A majority of the posts on this blog are about health issues and our diet. We have described the problem with the current Standard American Diet, which is SAD. For example, this post (Natural Law - Food $ vs Health Care $) gives an easy visual of how the money you spend on food will directly correlate to the money you spend on Health Care....

A majority of the posts on this blog are about health issues and our diet. We have described the problem with the current Standard American…

01/10/2026

Ok new Food Pyramid at Realfood.gov. Full fat brisket cooked in homemade beef broth. Small piece of sourdough bread made from freshly ground wheat berries. Butter thick enough to see teeth marks. No HFCS BBQ sauce. Not pictured 1/2 cup full fat with cream raw (real) milk with a spoon full of kefir.
Flavor, amazing.
Filling? YES.
Nutrition, of course, in nature, nutrition ALWAYS follows FLAVOR.

12/31/2025

2025 Omega 6:3 Data

If you replace grocery store beef with DS Family Pasture Grazed Beef for your health, your taste buds will thank you. In nature, nutrition always follows flavor. What are you going to measure? Years ago, when Doug began his journey to healing, as conventional health care failed him, he found the Weston A. Price Foundation. The scientific and traditional wisdom agreed that products from animals raised on pasture resulted in healing and health....

What are you going to measure? Years ago, when Doug began his journey to healing, as conventional health care failed him, he found the Weston…