The time has come to take the two-year old steers to the slaughter house. Three went today, the other three will go at the end of October. It is satisfying to be able to provide people food that has been raised with love, but it is also a sad time. As I made all the […]
Life ends. And life continues. Pat Corbett, one of Saguaro Juniper’s founders, passed away on September 26th of this year. Though she had been fighting various ailments for many years, the end seemed to come suddenly. I simply couldn’t imagine a world without Pat in it. Then she was gone. At the end of her […]
In honor of the passing of a long-time member of our herd, here’s an album of some photos and videos of Cruella from the past few years. In the last video, Lucia is giving her some extra love not long before her death. Cruella was born on range on May 5th, 2014. She had the […]
On July 6th we had to put our 13-year old cow Crockpot down. We found her on June 30th near the drinker at the Mason Pasture unable to get up, and though she continued to try to rise through the week, her legs were not able to support her. We did what we could to […]
The pre-dawn darkness this morning is brisk, the bright stars sharpened into glittering points by the cold air. Inside, I eat cereal with goat milk from our community goat herd and think through the task for the morning of driving Wingnut to the slaughter house. This is the first animal I have taken to slaughter […]
