I can’t count the number of times I’ve stood patiently as a customer, suddenly off-guard and sputtering, stared wide-eyed at their grocery list as though a piercing glare might miraculously change the recommended cut inked permanently on their recipe card.
Read MoreToday they’re breaking ground again: The guys at Daddy’s are the first to serve grassfed beef from our farm.
Read MoreDaddy’s menu is always changing thanks to the creative genius of Dana and Darren, the father-son duo who create the culture of Clarion, and then serve it on a good roll.
Read MoreThis week we’ll review my tips to thrive at a farmers market, suggestions born from a decade of observations made while selling beef to a growing number of people in towns and cities across our region.
Read MoreThis week our featured restaurant is Yinzburgh BBQ on Baum Boulevard in Pittsburgh.
Read MoreKeep this idea in mind: YOU are built to LOVE food.
Read MoreMost people are increasingly concerned that our food system consists of just a few major players who operate on an international scale to put food on your table. Transparency is obviously an issue when customers are spread all over the country and producers are all over the world. As the beef industry consolidates into a vertically integrated mass production machine, they're running into issues with public relations.
Read MoreI have barely a shred of mechanical know-how. My childhood consisted of a great deal of four wheelers and dirt bikes on which my friends and I terrorized the countryside, but when breakdowns occurred the repair work was always entrusted to someone who had the gift of vehicular prowess.
Read MoreHave you ever watched a group of chickens chasing a grasshopper? It’s a chaotic event. There is squabbling and pushing and shoving all taking place in the midst of constant, rapid movement as the flock pursues their prey.
Read MoreGoals are quite possibly one of the most underrated success strategies known to man. Too often we spend our lives so focused on the day-to-day and the minute-to-minute tasks that we forget to take a look around and actually figure out where we want to go.
Read MoreThe sound, obviously emanating from a bovine of relatively young age, stopped me in my tracks. Gina and I were strolling through Garmish, Germany, completely engulfed in the beauty of the town framed by mountains in the background when our ears picked up the familiar bellow.
Read MoreThe bull was standing not fifteen feet in front of us. He’s a solid chunk of grass powered muscle and I was chattering away about the fact, rattling off pedigree information and reporting on previous calf crops sired by the beast currently subjected to our scrutiny.
Read MoreSeveral years ago I was visiting a friend’s farm to observe his cattle grazing operation and ask a few questions. During our walk through the fields we came upon a plot that featured quite a good deal of ragweed growing among the desired vegetation.
Read MoreTime management. I'm reminded on a regular basis that the skills I possess in this field are horrendous. Such an observation usually makes its way to the surface when I have overbooked myself and I'm spouting off my temper about how someone needs to figure out a 30 hour day and an eight day week.
Read MoreI can well remember a Penn State horticulture professor’s regular classroom emphasis of his fascination with plants. “Any living organism with roots,” he would say, “cannot get up and run away when conditions become unfavorable.
Read MoreIt was fall 2017, and I was standing near the stables on a beautiful plantation along the Ashleigh River in Charleston, South Carolina. My wife and I were attending the wedding of a friend of hers, and I found myself in the company of young men and women enjoying careers in the medical field.
Read MoreI am blessed beyond belief to have parents who raised me with a strong emphasis on the joyous aspect of play. Ours was a household with strict television bans and repercussions for blatant usage of the phrase ‘I’m bored’.
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