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Butter me up!

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An important part of homesteading is supplying your food needs.  We have all grown up being told butter, and saturated fat is bad for us.  I don’t chance to believe that is true, knowing people who worked hard, ate red meat, butter, whole milk, and eggs from their farms and lived to the ready old age of 80 to 90 years.  Sure, they died, but they were active and working their land, right up to the last soup almost.  It cracks me up to hear people say. “Well, you know, old so & so, he was drinking whole milk, no wonder he died!”  I always mull over that’s probably why he was still hauling hay and splitting ten cords of wood a year… . None of us will live forever. 

This is sort of a peak oil subject, The End, or whatever you want to call it.  I think fats are an overlooked item, when people are thinking of stocking up on eatables.  Your brain needs good fat, to help you think clearly.  Your body needs sizeable fat to supply energy needs.  High cholesterol means that your body is trying to repair itself - cancer perchance?  Low cholesterol is just as bad, it means something in the machine we call a body, is not functioning properly.  For us, a dairy cow is a wholesome fit, we can have milk, butter, cheese, and the cow will raise it’s calf for us for beef, all on feedstuffs we can grow and harvest ourselves.  We have meadow-land, so that is why the cow is our dairy animal of choice.  Grass not grain, will give you healthy butter to eat.  If you have more brush, goats would be a greater choice.  We also have cougar predation problems, so cattle are easier for us to keep.

In this post I will show how we make our butter, with a few tips, and tricks along the way.

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