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As of December 2015 Wests Windy Acres Farm has closed -

Bruce accepted a job offer in Georgia

that was too good to turn down

(especially because it means we are so close to our grandbabies -)

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

More wedding pictures

I love black n white photos -

Also as wedding pictures trickle in I will post our favorites on here

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I am Debra - pictured here with my Grandsons; Seaton and Jace, They call me Nana and Bruce Beepe a few years ago I was diagnosed with some health issues that typical meds did not help at all so I changed our lifestyle and eating habits - Still med. free 16 years later!!!" "take your time, don't live to fast,troubles will come and they will pass... be simple... be something you love and understand... forget your lust for rich mans gold... all that you need is in your soul..."

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~I recently bought your beef at Oryana and prepared it last night. It was so much better than what I am used to from other stores. Thanks. And thanks for a good product. Ruth M

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Health Rant...

Last night a conversation about “eggs” was triggered by an article in
The paper that says eggs are good for you –
I stated,” YES, Eggs from Free Range all naturally raised chickens are good
For you – however eggs from chickens raised in huge commercial operations
Are not good for you…”. Honestly – stop & think about it;
how can you take a bird, Feed it growth hormones, antibiotics, arsenic etc…
and expect it to produce a healthy egg made for human consumption – you
are going to lose something in the process – that something is anything of
any natural nutritional value…
Someone made the comment “Health Gospel according to Deb”… no this
Is NOT according to Deb – this is according to anyone who understands
the true process of nature - -
If you take a chicken and give it a choice of commercial feed or bugs, grass,
veggies, worms… it will choose bugs, grass, worms, veggies - - when a chicken
feeds on those things its healthier, happier & its eggs yolks are a beautiful dark
orange –filled with Omega 3s & other cholesterol fighting, cancer fighting ingredients!
Take away all those things you will have sickly pale yellow yoke that equals no goodness at all!!!
Please don’t complain about your health if you are unwilling to change your habits
to make yourself healthier… There is no instant cure, it takes time, only you can
make the changes! If you get back to eating what nature intended you should eat
you will feel better –
This is not off the cuff speaking this is 10 years worth of experience –
I was diagnosed with Firbromyalgia 8 years ago - - the first thing they did was give me
A prescription… it had the opposite affect on me of what it was suppose to do –
I was miserable, I felt awful and I cried for 3 months - - so I started doing research - -
I found that daily moderate exercise and being very careful of what I was feeding on had
drastic affects on how I felt – If I ate food with crap in it I felt like crap - -
If I ate naturally good for you foods, I felt good - - I’ve proved it over and over again…
It took time but soon my immediate family was noticing the difference too - - We learned to experiment with recipes revamping them to make them healthy it’s a fun and tasty experience! Then we had the chance to start the farm - - so more studying was involved… Did you know cows were not meant to eat grains… their digestive systems
Are only made to eat grass/hay… if you feed them grains they get sick… then they
Require antibiotics and so starts the un – natural cycle and decline of a milk or meat
That is fit for human consumption - -
While I realize that to feed the masses – they must continue the large commercial sales –
BUT we can change our immediate surroundings because you can eat LOCAL - -
Farms are popping up all over with foods raised the way “Nature” intended
People always wait till they get sick then make the changes –
Why not make the changes now so you have a better chance of not getting sick –
Then there are those of you who will say but it cost so much more to eat that way –
Yes it does cost more but you can either;
“Pay for Healthy foods now or Pay the Doctor later”

YOU ARE WHAT YOUR ANIMALS EAT

In my investigation into pasture-based farming, I've stumbled upon an alarming state of affairs: few animal scientists see any link between animal feed and human food. "Feed animals anything you want," say the experts, "and it makes no difference to their meat, milk, or eggs." Because of this mindset, our animals are being fed just about anything that enhances the bottom line, including chicken feathers, sawdust, chicken manure, stale pizza dough, potato chips, and candy bars.
Here's a glaring example. A 1996 study explored the desirability of feeding stale chewing gum to cattle.(1) Amazingly, the gum was still in its aluminum foil wrappers. Wonder of wonders, the experts concluded that bubblegum diet was a net benefit---at least for the producers. I quote: "Results of both experiments suggest that [gum and packaging material] may be fed to safely replace up to 30% of corn-alfalfa hay diets for growing steers with advantages in improving dry matter intake and digestibility." In other words, feed a steer a diet that is 30 percent bubblegum and aluminum foil wrappers, and it will be a more efficient eater. With a nod to public safety, the researchers did check to see how much aluminum was deposited in the various organs of the cattle. Not to worry. The aluminum content was "within normal expected ranges." As always, there was no mention of the nutritional content of the resulting meat.
When I first read the bubblegum studies, I assumed that no one would actually feed bubblegum to their animals, despite the "positive outcome" of the research.. Then a professor of animal science drove me by a Beechnut gum factory in upstate New York where dairy farmers bought truckloads of bubble gum to feed to their cows.
The view from the other side of the fence is just as sobering. Most experts in human nutrition are equally blind to the feed/food connection. To them, beef is beef, eggs are eggs, and milk is milk. Thus, when the USDA says "eat less red meat," the edict applies to all red meat, whether it's a fatty steak from a grainfed cow, or a lean steak from a grassfed cow with its invisible bounty of omega-3s, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and CLA.
I've spent the past four years trying to forge the missing link between animal and human nutrition. It's been tough going, especially when it comes pasture-raised animals because virtually all the studies focus on feedlot animals. To fill in the gap, I've searched through yellowing journals published before the advent of factory farming, pieced together small studies financed by farmers, and combed through the research from Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand—parts of the world where animals are still kept home on the range.
Finding the amount of vitamin E in grassfed meat has been one of my biggest challenges. I began tthe search when I learned that grass has 20 times more vitamin E than corn or soy. Given the magnitude of this difference, I reasoned that meat from grassfed animals must have an extra helping of vitamin E.
At long last, I located one American study that broached the subject. The impetus for the study came from disgruntled Japanese buyers who complained that American beef spoiled more quickly than Australian free-range beef. Knowing that vitamin E helped prolong shelf life, the American researchers investigated the amount of vitamin E in the two types of meat. Lo and behold, they discovered that the meat from grassfed cattle had three to four times more vitamin E than feedlot beef, thanks to all that vitamin E-rich grass.
Now, what did the researchers do with this finding? True to form, they began studying how much synthetic vitamin E to add to synthetic feedlot diets. I doubt that it even occurred to them to investigate pasture-based ranching.
Why this lack of interest in the natural model? Much of our animal research is funded by commercial interests—specifically the grain, chemical, pharmaceutical, farm equipment, and meat-packing companies. Together, these vertically integrated behemoths have a multi-billion dollar stake in perpetuating factory farming. The USDA, meanwhile, aids and abets the feedlot industry by focusing virtually all of its efforts—and our tax dollars!—on tweaking the system. For example, the USDA Meat and Animal Research Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, is more willing to spend $100,000 researching how quickly feedlot manure seeps into the water table than to spend a similar amount of money investigating pasture-based ranching, the holistic model that keeps the contamination from happening in the first place.
What will it take to draw more scientific attention to pasture-based ranching? Pressure from an enlightened public. And what will it take to enlighten the public? The national media.
I have a fantasy how this might happen. First, a prominent media source such as "60 minutes" or The New York Times will decide to spotlight pasture-based farming. Building on this ground-breaking work, an award-winning TV producer will create a documentary that deepens the discussion. The program will conclude—as it must—-that raising animals on pasture is better for consumers, the animals, the environment, and small farmers. Before long, dozens of news shows, newspapers, and magazines will follow suit.
As the momentum builds, grassfarming will become the talk of the town. Serving organic meat won't win points in Los Angeles anymore unless it's grassfed as well. Meanwhile, Ted Turner will stop sending all of his bison to feedlots to be fattened like cattle, and by 2005, his "Turner Reserve Grassfed Bison" will be the thing to serve at celebrity gatherings. Propelled by this groundswell of interest, private and government institutions will finally devote more time, money and energy to exploring pasture-based farming.
Will grassfarming ever become the darling of the media? Only time will tell. But even if the media misses the boat, the good news about grassfarming will keep spreading on the grassroots level, one satisfied customer at a time!
Jo Robinson is a New York Times bestselling writer. She is the author or coauthor of 11 nationally published books including Pasture Perfect, which is a comprehensive overview of the benefits of choosing products from pasture-raised animals, and The Omega Diet (with Dr. Artemis Simopoulos) that describes an omega-3 enriched Mediterranean diet that may be the healthiest eating program of all. To order her books or learn more about grassfed products, visit http://eatwild.com.

Reasons We try to live a HEALTHY life style

Fibromyalgia
Costochondritis

Healthy Bodies Take Time

Hip Moms Go Green

Highland Passion

... if you stop and listen you may hear murmur of cattle lowing contentedly as they digest what is simply natural to them... Grass... Fresh or dried its what nature intended!
They move as one ... not as other cattle but more like buffalo -
They are docile in nature, calm, they love to be loved and are easy to love so no fear adrenalins...
They don't require medications or hormones or anything to enhance or take away from what nature has already made PERFECT - -

In the Sugar Shack...

As the sun rises over the hills,

smoke from the sugar shack

drifts across the crystal laden snow

the trees warm up, the sap begins to flow

Thick bubbles form in the pans

then burst with maple scent

reminding us the reward will be sweet

the long hours well spent -

dlw 2009

Quotes

Apple pie without the cheese,

is like the kiss without a squeeze.’

"Opportunity is missed

by most people because

it is dressed in overalls

and looks like work" te

They say you are not

as innocent as you seem

They say you have a past

You do, so do I ...

LET THEM TALK

May those who love us,

love us.

May God turn the hearts

of those who don't love us.

If God cannot turn their hearts

may he turn their ankles

so we may know them by their limping.

Being happy does not mean
everything is perfect...
it means you decide
to see beyond the imperfections...

Love is
the thing that enables a woman
to sing while she mops up the floor
after her husband has walked
across it in his barn boots.
~Hoosier Farmer

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