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First Farmer Angus GoPro video. What is an Eggmobile. February 2015
I am going to try on all the GoPro videos to give them to you raw (unedited) off the farm. Here is the first one.
The wastefulness of filet eaters.
Hello At least twice a week I have a request to supply a client with rump, filet and sirloin (only 7% of a beef carcass).
The grim month of Movember was for the amazing Ukuthemba charity
Hello The pictures that follow are not the prettiest on this blog. Rico and I took the abuse knowing that the chance would come to
My first white wine. Ezibusisweni Chenin Blanc 2012
Hello Ezibusisweni is the Zulu word for the Place of Blessings. This is what the bottle looks like. I have chosen to use the
Malnutrition starts in the soil. The paradox that is agriculture.
Hello Obesity, starvation and infertility are all forms of malnutrition which starts in the soil. 1. We, South Africa, are now the third most
The asthma drug that helps finish your beef.
Dear Reader. Less than 1% of the beef marketed in South Africa is grass fed beef. The rest is produced in a feedlot where grains
The farms I grew up on are now part of 120,000 hectares of economically sterile land.
Dear Reader My father left his farms, for which he was paid by the government, this past Saturday the 31st of May 2014. Like all
The biggest lie in agriculture is free range eggs.
Dear Reader “We need conventional, chemical, toxic, GMO and soil destroying agriculture to feed the world” – This used to be the biggest lie in
An opportunity lost due to the fanaticism of the vegans.
Dear Reader. I cannot remember who said it but the ferocity with which you defend your position is directly proportional to the insecurity you feel
Why we chose to plant our pastures this past week.
Hello Farming BioDynamically is about farming in harmony with nature. In particular the energies that enable fertility and fecundity. We have just planted 20 hectares
Vegetarianism, and it’s meager cousin Veganism, is not the answer. Eating more beef is.
Dear Reader. I would like to be very specific about the second sentence above. Eating more grass fed beef is a partly correct answer. Eating
Free choice mineral lick – Balancing our soils biologically as opposed to mechanically.
Dear Reader All soils are deficient in minerals. Some a lot more than others. Plants growing in those soils will have the same deficiency that