Cactus Roots Farm TX

08/05/2026

You guys!! Look who we got to meet at a private screening of “Roots so Deep (You Can See the Devil Down There)”

By far the highlight of our time in San Marcos at the SFFFS conference!

07/24/2026

On the right, the first bite I took. On the left, the last bite. See the pear starting to oxidize even in just the few minutes it took me to eat around the core?

Now go to the grocery store and find the best organic pear on the shelf. Cut it open. Leave it on the counter. Come back tomorrow. It will barely even be brown.

We are not the same. Demand real food. Grown your own.

07/20/2026

Was heading to bed and darn near stepped on this little guy IN the KITCHEN. Now look, I don’t mind frogs. But what are you even doing in here? Anywho, he’s cute and adorable. Here’s hoping you make it past the cats and chickens and find a pond of your own.

07/14/2026

Love him or not, the man has brought so much awareness to the need for regenerative ag and encouraged many who didn’t think they could, to try another way. For that I am grateful.

07/13/2026

Sometimes you just gotta shred.

07/05/2026

A farm is about life. It's about growing and nurturing and caring. But because it is about life, it will invariably, at some point, be about death. Now, we understand there's a natural cycle. We raise animals for food, and we're okay with that. But this isn't about that. This is about loss. Its about grief.

We lost three this week. Three sweet, precious goat kids. Babies we helped birth. Babies we cuddled and pet every day. Babies the Cactus Roots kids named. But the damn parasites didn't care about that. We fought hard with every piece of knowledge, experience, medicine, and skill that we have learned over a decade of doing this. But this week, it wasn't enough. Two of these three would have one day gone to freezer, yes, but that should have been after a long life well lived in the free air and sunshine. Not like this.

We share this not to tug your heartstrings, although this should, but so that you'll know it isn't all rainbows and sunshine. There is a heavy, heavy responsibility in the stewardship of the lives the Lord has entrusted to us. The sanitized "cottage core", Insta-ready homestead influencers don't talk about this part. But it is just as real. Sometimes it's joy and sunshine. Most of the time it's a lot of sweat and aching muscles. But sometimes its on your knees in the dirt, covered in three kinds of poo, ugly crying over a blanket and praying for the words to tell your youngest farmer his favorite didn't make it.

I don't have a happy ending to this story. I have another young goat that turned up this morning with runny poo. I have chores stacked up inside and outside because of all the time spent trying to save these three. I am questioning all my life decisions, particularly the ones that involve goats. But in all this, I am still blessed. I am sustained. I am thankful.

06/29/2026

Another boy! Good job Daisy Duke; he’s perfect!

We have two more expecting mothers that we expect in the next couple weeks.

05/17/2026

05/17/2026

We had moved the minis into the yard that morning so they could graze down the orchard a bit. Called everyone up and they all came trotting in eager for fresh deep grass. Round about supper time I went out to check everyone, and there was no baby Timmy. Not with his mother, not with the other calf, no where. So dinner goes on hold while we call out the search party. High and lo we searched. Checked all the fence lines. Checked all the neighbors. Looked in every possible nook. And believe me, on this farm there are a lot of nooks. Finally decide to regroup and eat a quick meal. And then it comes to me. Five minutes after I sat down I knew exactly where he was. I finished eating and, as the last light was fading out of the day, calmly walked over to where I knew he would be. Had to get some help to un-wedge his little butt, but we got him out and his mama never missed him. 😝

The moral of this story is, sometimes you just need five minutes for a snack and a think.

05/03/2026

In today’s episode of “This is why we eat them.” We had everyone searching for Mollys missing calf, delaying dinner by over an hour. We finally set down to eat our now rather dried out and overly crispy chicken when it occurred to me. Yep, that’s where he was.