Say NO! to GMOs! 8/25/17

Hello Small Farm Enthusiasts,

www.GMOsRevealed.com If you have not yet tuned in to this, it is really good. I thought I
knew enough but am learning that there is  so much more!  In the past we
have done cheap feed chickens, never again on this farm, after seeing
this series. It will be GMO free from now on!

Interesting experience here this week. A gal from UF called looking for
organic cow manure for research purposes.  Seems although they have
plenty of cows (and other animals) at UF to gather manure from for
research they DO NOT have any that is free enough from chemicals to
breed flies and do research. 20 to 30 years ago new chemicals were
manufactured that you were to feed to the cows to eliminate the fly
breeding cycle.  Who needs flies when there is modern technology? And
yes flies were an issue here till we learned how to flow with nature and
live with them. Somebody (a fellow farmer) emailed lately and asked if I
feed apple cider vinegar to deal with flies? I told him, "no I rely on
spiders". He never emailed back and asked what I meant. These things are
left to inquiring minds to discover. 10 years ago here, I found that
when the cows went into this certain place in the pasture rotation where
there were trees I noticed a LOT less flies in the morning at milking
time. I wondered why this was happening and so one day I was getting up
the cows for milking and had to go into this wooded area to get the cows
out and got plastered with spider webs from the shoulders up. The cows
had already walked thru there and brought down the webs below that level
but the higher ones got me. Bingo………spiders are the answer! 
Immediately, the next year we planted 1500 trees on the farm and since
then well over 1500 more. We did this so the spiders could build webs
on, and between the trees and an added benefit would be that those same
trees would provide shade for the soil, grass and animals in the
pasture. 10 years later we really only have a severe fly problem in
Spring. But by early summer, after the spiders have hatched by the
gazillions, and build more and more webs, the fly population is
extremely diminished. The cows just take a walk in the woods and the
spiders trap and scoop up the food they need. Dung beetles cannot live
where the fly chemicals are used but on our farm dung beetles are all
over the place, they suck the liquid out of the dung pats in the first
12 to 24 hours making it hard for the flies to hatch their eggs, cutting
the fly cycle. So spiders and beetles are an integral part of full
circle farm, they are vital. So the gal from UF was a student and she
and a fellow student and a fat professor come out to get several 5
gallon buckets of manure. I wonder if the young pretty gals realized
that if they follow that fat man too far down his trail they will end up
as fat as him? Oh boy, why does my mind ask so many questions? He
looked like a heart attack waiting to happen. A super nice guy who
thought what we were doing here was awesome, he could not get enough of
rotating cows and egg mobiles.  It was an up-close and personal look at
the blind leading the blind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tibPjgHsFi8
Holy WOW!!!  If you are addicted to anything watch this now. Now, when
this starts you are going to say you do not need this as you do not have
Parkinson’s but wait, keep listening, there is a lot more in the next
few minutes.

Beef it's whats for dinner. Plenty of halves and wholes now if you want some, email me directly at thisisdennis@windstream.net  

Fat For Fuel, by Mercola was lent to me and it is some kind of
amazing. I am definitely taking my own health to another level with
Mercola’s help. I want to highly recommend this book as well as Take Control of Your Health. I am so impressed with these two books I now want to read Effortless Healing. Here is an excerpt from the intro read it for yourself and get healthier: 

Although I was aware of the importance of limiting refined carbs and
processed foods and replacing them with healthier choices, I was
relatively clueless about the importance of eating plenty of high
quality fats and activating your body’s natural ability to burn fat for
its primary fuel instead of glucose. I didn’t realize that I still had
to look further.

This rang a bell with me after I read the book and I will def see fat as an essential part of my diet from now on.   

Come See the Peas:  We
will spend an evening together instead of  the day. I have the most
incredible crop of peas this year it is just incredible. I want to share
what I am learning about growing winter food for the cows and how it
saves money plus makes more (and better) milk. Jim Elizondo
taught me this, as in Mexico they cannot afford to feed hay at all. One
of the big challenges here is buying chemical free hay but If you grow
enough peas you do not need much hay. Save tons of money and the cows
are a lot happier. September 19th, 6:30 to 8:30, cost is $35, order here. 
I will do my very best to explain why and how and what it does for the
cows, the soil and the entire whole. If you are spending money on hay
you need to see this. Also this year there will be very little hay to
buy because it has been raining so much the hay guys have not been able
to make much hay. No problem here as all that rain just grows more peas
so I do not need the hay!  

Thanks for supporting a small, family farm and contributing to a more REGENERATIVE future,

Dennis and Alicia