This week Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced that the State of Texas Agriculture Relief Fund, also known as the STAR Fund, would be made available to Texas farmers and ranchers who had been impacted by the winter storm that crippled the state's agricultural industry and even threatened the food supply...
The Rose City Farmers' Market will be back with sustainably-grown produce, grass fed meats and yard eggs, from-scratch pies and pastries, local honey, and more!
Sunday afternoon I visited my parents at Forever Farm, that's what Mom calls it, their home in Gilmer. While there we fed fish, bottle fed a calf and played with the mama cows.
Following the big Thanksgiving Holiday, my mom invited me to come out to the farm in Gilmer to help her decorate for the Holidays. In between stringing garland across the front porch and putting up the tree we also had to the feed the cows.
One thing you should know about me is that I am pretty much a girl raised in the suburbs. I'm not crazy about critters in the wild. I love my two cats dearly, but other varmints - not so much - especially snakes. I am not a fan, at all - I don't even visit the reptile exhibit at Caldwell Zoo...