Ynot Farms LLC

02/12/2024

Do you need a last minute Valentines Day idea?
A lamb gram comes with 15 min or 30 min cuddle/playtime, unlimited selfies, and a personalized card for your loved one.
We can come to your home or office.
You can also add a rose or balloon for $5.

01/02/2023

Shout out to all of you working on your dreams! ❤️

12/30/2022

It was me. I needed to hear this. 🙌🙌

Source : Melissa Woodward Hoffmaster

12/24/2022

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger.”
It doesn’t make you anything.
It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong.
They are not mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion... The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury...So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.

Their needs come first.

In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.

When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully.

You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p.

People will look at you sideways and crinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance!

You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”
~author unknown

12/21/2022

12/16/2022

12/16/2022

12/15/2022

Remember this for your holiday season. ❤️

Source : Large Animal Consulting & Education

12/07/2022

It's Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Week!
Arkansas has 42,000 farms across the state, and 96% are family owned!
This year the Arkansas Farm Family Program is celebrating 75 years of recognizing outstanding Arkansas Farm Families!

Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas
Farm Credit
Arkansas Press Association
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture

11/28/2022

I truly love lard. It is what comfort and accomplishment looks like to me. It gives me a sense of accomplishment when I render it at home from our home raised pigs. It is comfort for the fact that it makes all foods better. 😉

TYPES OF FAT

Caul Fat: Anatomically speaking, caul fat is the thin, lacy membrane of an animal surrounding the internal organs, known as the greater omentum. This type of fat is sometimes called lace fat, fat netting, omental fat, or crépine, its French name. It's used as a casing for other meat preparations like roasts, sausages, or anything you want to add decadent flavor to.

Fatback: This comes from the back of the pig, includes the shoulder and rump areas, and is the thick layer of fat directly underneath the skin. Once rendered, it produces a lard that’s slightly yellow in color and it has a stronger flavor than leaf fat. It’s great for frying or sautéing.

Leaf Lard: This is the fat from around the animal's kidney’s and is the “cleanest” fat on the whole animal. It’s also the healthiest. Once rendered, it produces a lard that’s white in color with a milder odor and flavor, making it ideal for use in pie crusts and pastries.

***IMPORTANT NOTE: The health benefits of lard do not apply to all lard from all animals. Fat is where a lot of the bad stuff is stored and concentrated (ie, chemicals, additives, by-products of junk ingredients, boar taint, etc). For that reason, we strongly suggest rendering lard only from responsibly raised animals fed a species-appropriate diet.