Lately we have had to change the way we run our beef business. For safety reasons, our butcher is phasing out animals with horns. The problem is, our babies have them - and big ones. One suggestion was that we switch breeds to one which has had the horns bred out of them. But our beautiful heard of Highlanders has thrived for 30 years on our pristine hillside in Vermont. We could also remove the horns, but don't want to, for reasons below. So, we are asked, why do we al

For all you honey DNA geeks out there, we got a response from the lab to my questions about the DNA results. As I mentioned in my last post, we found our honey to have over 30% Hemlock pollen - a big surprise because there aren't that many Hemlocks around. This means our bees must be seeking them out or favoring them in some way. Bees can travel as far as five miles from the hive to collect pollen. I had asked the lab to share with us what they are learning from the sample