LDH Farmstead

09/07/2026

Sound Up 😂

Hope everyone that works for a living had a great Labor Day…. Ya know doing some manual labor. Because let’s be honest we all know if we are fortunate enough to work a job that we had this day off, we used it to work some more on something on the farm or at the house 😂

09/04/2026

One of the last few fields from 1st cutting 😅

It seemed to take forever to get it all done, but I’m thankful we aren’t in a drought this summer!

09/01/2026

Finishing one steer out from birth to butcher will take an estimated 7 tons of forage, whether that be grass or hay.

Not including what’s wasted/goes back into the pastures.

You’ll grow about 2 tons of hay in a year on one acre.

Given that weather conditions have been ideal. These are all just estimates, because really you feed what you need to feed and and so many factors change that!

Too much rain, not enough rain, different temperatures change the growth pattern as well as the nutritional value of the grass.

And finishing the steer on grain will also yield more crop grown, that’s dependent on weather and time.

All this briefly to say, in order to raise one steer from birth to finish, you have to be thinking ahead and planning ahead, all without knowing what prices will be, what markets will be, what weather will be and what consumption will be.

And then to add if that steer was born on the farm from a cow on the farm, that’s a whole different story of planning and growing on the farm.

It does not happen over night, and it surely doesn’t happen without putting in the time and work everyday with no promise of what the future may hold.

08/28/2026

Excuse me little miss but you’re supposed to be on the other side of that fence.

Grandpa called laughing and said he was throwing stuff from the garden over the fence, turned around and she startled him.

A bucket of grain and they’ll go anywhere 😂 She didn’t want to be over there either she was ready to get back to the gang.

Had to fix some fence that looked like a deer jumped through and I’m assuming she got out there, the charger was reading low.

All is fixed and good to go, or better be 🤞🏻

08/26/2026

Why is it so satisfying to clean the chicken coop now?

Our newest built coop has been so much easier to take care of vs the the chicken tractor we originally used that were made with cattle panels. They did their job but the chickens would get wet and muddy and the eggs would be a mess. Now the only times we have dirty eggs is when the egg be**er busts one open.

Little building was built with pallets and pallet boards, leftover metal roofing. Our feed storage is old chest freezers that quit working. A windshield scraper gets the poo off the roosts and then my handy dandy poo scoop sifts it out and leaves the sand. Great combo 😏

Clearly I like old s**t 🤘🏻even the chickens’ that I’ll use for the garden!

08/25/2026

3 Things I Wish More People Knew About the Families Raising Their Food ❤️

1. We care more than you probably realize.
Our animals aren’t just a paycheck. We’re the ones checking cows when it’s freezing, worrying when something doesn’t seem right, making sure everyone is fed before we are, and rearranging our day when an animal needs us.

We raise them with respect, and their health and well being matter to us. A lot actually.

2. For a lot of small farms, farming isn’t our only job.
This is one I wish more people understood.

We work off the farm so we can afford to farm.

We work the day jobs of 7-5, run businesses, or take on other jobs, odd and ends jobs, and then come home and start the other work. There are still animals to feed, fences to fix, hay to make, chores to finish, and a farm that doesn’t care how tired you are.

Sometimes that off the farm paycheck is what pays for the feed, fuel, equipment repairs, seed, vet bills, and everything else it takes to keep a small family farm going.

We’re not doing it because farming is easy money. We’re doing it because we love this life enough to work another job to keep it.

3. There is SO much we can’t control.
Weather. Drought. Feed. Fuel prices. Market. Equipment breaking at the worst possible time. Rising costs.

We can plan, budget, work hard, and make the best decisions we know how to make and things can still change overnight.

At the end of the day, we’re just a family trying to keep a farm going, raise our kids with a good work ethic, care for our animals, pay our bills, and hopefully leave something behind for the next generation.

You don’t have to understand every decision farmers make.

You don’t have to know everything about agriculture.

Just ask questions. Have conversations. Get to know the people behind your food.

Because behind a lot of those farms is a family working a regular job, coming home, changing their clothes, pulling their boots back on…and heading right back out the door to do the work they love. ❤️

08/24/2026

08/20/2026

✨Throwback Thursday✨
to when we had a set of twin calves and a set of twin goats born within a week of eachother on the farm.

Seeing healthy babies being born will never get old ❤️

08/19/2026

It’s real easy to try to say this, but real hard to try to live this… definitely when you own a farm.

08/19/2026

Words spoken about our beef,

“I wouldn’t share with Jesus if he asked himself”

I truly hope they would, but I’m just going to take it as a compliment and leave it at that 😅




What’s your steak preference? I’m a medium well 😍