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Reverence Farms, 1568 Haw Ranch Road, Graham, NC (2025)

07/08/2025

Not do***ng vets.

I have the HUGEST respect for the profession, especially large-animal vets, who are probably the most underpaid, underappreciated and overworked professionals, bar none, other than maybe floor nurses at a busy hospital.

My point is simply this: Vets are busy, overworked, stretched and in many places they don’t make emergency house calls or haven’t seen a dairy cow since vet school.

you have no idea how on your own you are until you are on.your.own.

And if you don’t know what to look for, what to advocate for, or know the basics, by the time you get it figured out, you’re out of time.

Most of the things you may expect your vet to do, most vets presume farmers know how to do, like give an IV for milk fever.

And they have little time — or frankly, sometimes little patience — for the inefficiencies and skillsets of most homesteads. I’d rather just tell you this now than have you find it out the hard way later.

It is time your skills got an upgrade.

What may be a five-alarm fire for your animal, also may be about seven fires down his or her list.

So it’s up to you to put it out. To have the basic knowledge to assess and treat basic things. What currently overwhelms you is pretty basic to learn how to do in most cases. You really can do this.

Dr. Hubert Karreman has spent 40 years in the trenches, stanchions, boxstalls and parlors with thousands of organic cows, and what he knows applies equally to goats and sheep. There are precious few of his kind left: old-school, non-corporate and focused on the individual animal in front of him (rather than herd health).

He’s a good teacher, kind and speaks in everyday language. And he’s about to radically up your preparedness on your farmstead.

All his tips, tricks and trade secrets are in our packed Farmstead Dairy Owners Manual.

Reply MANUAL and get yourself ready to treat the stuff that’s just part of livestock farming. You’ve got this.

07/08/2025

Not do***ng vets.

I have the HUGEST respect for the profession, especially large-animal vets, who are probably the most underpaid, underappreciated and overworked professionals, bar none, other than maybe floor nurses at a busy hospital.

My point is simply this: Vets are busy, overworked, stretched and in many places they don’t make emergency house calls or haven’t seen a dairy cow since vet school.

you have no idea how on your own you are until you are on.your.own.

And if you don’t know what to look for, what to advocate for, or know the basics, by the time you get it figured out, you’re out of time.

Most of the things you may expect your vet to do, most vets presume farmers know how to do, like give an IV for milk fever.

And they have little time — or frankly, sometimes little patience — for the inefficiencies and skillsets of most homesteads. I’d rather just tell you this now than have you find it out the hard way later.

It is time your skills got an upgrade.

What may be a five-alarm fire for your animal, also may be about seven fires down his or her list.

So it’s up to you to put it out. To have the basic knowledge to assess and treat basic things. What currently overwhelms you is pretty basic to learn how to do in most cases. You really can do this.

Dr. Hubert Karreman has spent 40 years in the trenches, stanchions, boxstalls and parlors with thousands of organic cows, and what he knows applies equally to goats and sheep. There are precious few of his kind left: old-school, non-corporate and focused on the individual animal in front of him (rather than herd health).

He’s a good teacher, kind and speaks in everyday language. And he’s about to radically up your preparedness on your farmstead.

All his tips, tricks and trade secrets are in our packed Farmstead Dairy Owners Manual.

Reply MANUAL and get yourself ready to treat the stuff that’s just part of livestock farming. You’ve got this.

06/16/2025

Keep going.
Keep dreaming.
It’s the last bastion against insanity.
Feeling despair? Create!
Encourage someone else. It’s contagious.

New Farmstead newsletter dropping this week: a surefire way to crawl out of the doldrums.

Respond FARMSTEAD to get on the list.

06/14/2025

Seek and ye shall find. But you have to look with your whole heart. And you can’t let go when it’s hard.

I’ve cried for this. I’ve bled for this. And I’ve cried some more.

Stewarding creation isn’t for sissies. Neither is rebuilding a food system from scratch.

0/10 would not recommend if comfort, convenience, social acceptance, or a normal life is important to you.

But if you’re willing to put it all on the table… What’s possible is nothing short of extraordinary.

05/23/2025

I can’t believe I just thought of this.

Everyone always wants our seed mixes. I would want them too. They work.

But just like the parable, they only work in the right soil. I never wanted to sell somebody a lie: “These seed mixes will fix your pasture.”

That’s just not true. Yet seed mixes in improved soils are game changing.

But put them in dead soil and you may as well burn paper money as compost.

My impulse has always been to have people out to the farm and show how it all works together. It’s really quite simple. Then, I told myself, then I can share the mixes in a way that I can live with.

I didn’t want to do it before because I didn’t want anyone’s hard to break like mine had broken so many times. When I spent money on seed and it went in the ground and nothing came of it except bare ground. Even with organic fertilizer.

We just did not have sufficient organic matter or biology to grow plants worth grazing. Now we do. It’s incredible. And I want you to have it too. But I don’t want you to go through the painful learning curve that I went through. It’s crazy to me even that I didn’t give up.

So I’ve decided to do what y’all have been asking me to do for sometime: white a cheat sheet on how to improve pastures and the seeds mixes that helped us get there.

I put both inside the conference bundle. And it’s only going to be available until May 31 before I retire the whole thing.

Why? Because the first step in good livestock is keeping your animals alive. And we have some exciting things coming down the pike to share with you.

So this conference bundle with the cheat sheet on building great pasture and the seeds to plant in it are on sale now until the end of May. And then that’s it.

But for those of you who have been begging me to share greener pastures, I had to make this available first.

At long last, the seed mixes, the pasture-building cheat sheet (just because it took me 17 years to figure out doesn’t mean you can’t do it in a fraction of the time) and the two-conference bundle.

Get it now. First conference sent immediately. 2025 conference recording goes out next week with the cheat sheets and mixes.

Reply CONFERENCE.

03/23/2025

It’s lonelier than you think.

Pretty images aside, milking your own cow is a lonely road.

Not to say it’s not amazing. It is amazing. She’s amazing. Who you’ll become is amazing.

But you have to stick it out to get there. And it helps if she doesn’t d!e. Don’t laugh. It’s easier than you think.

At one time or another, you are going to find yourself alone with an animal that you don’t know how to help.

It’s our mission to arm you with tools, knowledge and community so that you never face that moment totally alone.

I’ve been milking cows alongside their calves on pasture for 17 years. Then I picked up the organic vet at an Acres USA conference and he really upped my game.

Don’t worry, we got married first. 😉

We now milk 60 Jerseys and we spent 9 years collecting case studies of real, live, actual problems you are likely to encounter whether you have one cow or 10.

Dr Karreman walks you through step-by-step what to do and how to prevent them in the first place. DrK is a 30-year practicing vet, and has authored three acclaimed books for pastured dairy farming.

You don’t have time, resources or heart to learn this all on your own. Ask me how I know. 😭

We want you to succeed, wildly. But first you have to get in the know. By the time you know you have a problem, the solution is too late.

We’ve put together a Manual for you that will get you through every common milk-cow problem (and, yes, it’s applicable to goats and sheep) and a whole bunch of uncommon dilemmas.

📌 If you’ve bought the cow, you need this.

📌 If you’re going to buy the cow, you need this.

📌 If you are wondering if a cow is for you, this is the best possible investment you can make in discovery.

📌 If you’ve been up a 💩 creek without a paddle with a cow, chances are you’ve already got this Manual— or are about to in an about 30 seconds. WYKYK.

You could buy every book on cows out there and not find 1/10th of what is in this packed Manual. The 5-star reviews speak for themselves.

We built this because we love cows and want you to be successful with yours.

Here’s to milk, from your cow, just as you hoped.

Reply MANUAL.

🥛 Cheers. And happy milking.

12/02/2024

The needs are more acute now. The cold that we knew was coming is here.

Even the blessed ones who have been given a camper still often need help making it something other than a cold metal icebox against the searing wind. Some have generators, not all. Some have sewer hookups, not all. Many people in campers still can’t take a shower without additional support because there is nothing around to hook up a camper TO and the counties are giving many folks a really hard time.

But instead of lamenting what is wrong, let’s focus on what we can do to help. People helping people works. And that’s exactly what our partners at Operation Anchor are doing.

The needs change daily — the small, nimble, people-driven rescue organizations need the ability to pivot and meet that need. Which means they need funds for RELIEF.

Sometimes a camper needs to be winterized. Sometimes repairs are needed on a home that is still standing so that more than a bedsheet can protect those inside against the cold, cold wind.

Have I mentioned that it is COLD? Biting, skin-chapping cold. And it’s supposed to get worse in the next week.
When you comment RELIEF on this post we will send you a link to a YouTube video on our partners at Operation Anchor and what they did and are doing for a family in Relief, NC, who lost two members of their family and are now rebuilding the house to provide a warm place for others in the community who escaped with their lives but not their homes.

You will also get a link to our partner ministry to donate to keep those on the ground going. Folks at Operation Anchor are winterizing this camper, just based on a need that someone shared *this morning* on this platform, and we were able to connect them to help. This family has people advocating for them – a lot of people don’t even have that – and they just needed resources and know-how. Operation Anchor get things done.

Reply RELIEF and we will get you linked up to be part of the solution.

11/14/2024

Want to be wildly happy? Live for a reason.

Rich people, famous people, accomplished people, educated people, comfortable people have nothing without this one thing: purpose.

Of all the fires that burn, that one has the slowest burn and the greatest stamina. I’ve never known someone to be truly content without it.

Don’t read what George Bernard Shaw is not saying. He isn’t saying that the community owns him in a way that superimposed over his will. He is saying that he lays down his life for a greater purpose that elevates his friends. Willingly. Joyfully. For a purpose that burns bright because of the nature of the gift.

There is a lot of counterfeit about. Discernment is especially important right now. And as you are looking about, purpose is something of a litmus test.

What I most love about farming — tending our basket and finding our needs to be tangibly met in community by exchanges that are more than mere commerce and when done with intimacy form the basis of real resilience — is that it offers a continual purpose.

No longer disconnected from the natural world when winter is cold and the shorter days mean you better have planned ahead for a time of scarcity of food, sometimes that drought-busting rain means you and your neighbor are going to have to work together to get the crop in the ground before the ground is too wet to work and the sun becomes too short to shine the plants into a harvest.

These are real and visceral things. And there is no sweeter moment than by the fire with hot chocolate when you milked the cow and traded some extra for your neighbor for some carrots and now your tired bones curl under a blanket because the scarcity of the season approaching in one respect means the arrival of an abundance that the previous season didn’t afford: time to be still, quiet, recharge.

How could we not give our all to such a beautiful cadence? Why is it that we traded this for a drive through? Such unbounded beauty is still available. Here. Now.

10/20/2024

Since the counties don’t seem to know how to count, let’s count for them. The state is about to FINALIZE these numbers and close the books on Hurricane Helene. Even as bodies are still being recovered by many, many citizen and public search and rescue teams today!!

If you PERSONALLY know of someone who tragically perished in Helene, firstly, please know first that your loss is significant and meaningful and its magnitude isn’t reflected by what the state is acknowledging, or not.

If you would like the names of those you lost to be counted by others who are willing to share the truth, then please list a short memorial to them here, and put the COUNTY NAME IN PARENTHESES.

Americans who died will be named, acknowledged and mourned. This is our core humanity.

10/13/2024

This is how the news isn’t reported.

This is how a narrative is constructed. When something is a big story, ink has to be used on it. But if there aren’t reporters on the ground or resources aren’t sent to put actual people in the actual scene, words still need to be written. So they get put together from afar with local quotes to fulfil journalistic obligations.

Here’s what I think is the real story here: Entire towns in NC and east TN washed away. When our farm started doing make-shift relief work 48 hours after Hurricane Helene hit the mountains in our state, we started making friends in the towns we visited. And the stories we were hearing from them didn’t even feel like they came from the same universe that the stories were being written about in the national press.

For one thing, it’s been ten days since there was any significant increase in the number of reported dead. Which is really strange considering that what everyone who I know who has been impacted says but no one seems to be able to utter publicly because of the raw trauma is the shear number of bodies that remain un-tagged and unrecovered. Not to mention the refrigerated trucks parked in every county.

Official death tolls don’t need to be tabulated and released for those stories to be told. But they are not being told. And the people who drowned in their cars and in their homes deserve better, and the living are only going to get the help they need when we acknowledge what a catastrophic amount of people have perished.

This is exactly the kind of journalism we decided we were okay with when we started paying news outlets to entertain us instead of inform us. Gathering news is expensive. Newsflash: no one has been really doing it well for a few decades.

I used to be a journalist. I wrote about money in politics, campaign finance reform, the inside “baseball” of the United States Congress. Before that I covered the Capitol Police as a “beat” reporter. And before that I answered phones for my homestate senator, the then-junior senator from Illinois.

I’ve seen a little bit about how sausage is made. And now I’ve made actual sausage as a farmer. The latter is cleaner.

04/04/2024

🎉 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FRIENDS! 🎉

We are so excited to announce our GRAND OPENING for our FARM STORE!!! 🥳

We have been keeping this little secret and a few others with some BIG BIG things that are coming for the farm and ultimately YOU, our valued community!

We have seen many requests from you, to come out to the farm, see the animals, watch our beautiful bovine graze - put your feet on the ground of our 400 acre regenerative farm here in North Carolina - and get to connect with us in the way we do deeply cherish - IN PERSON! 👩🏻‍🌾🧑🏻‍🌾

SO here’s your opportunity!!

We are throwing open the doors to the farm store this SATURDAY, celebrating our grand opening of the FARM STORE with 50% off our organically raised chicken eggs and inviting you to come say HI! 👋🏼

This is the only time of year where you can get our organically raised chicken eggs for $6/dozen! (That’s 50% OFF!!) Plus we have a limited quantity of organic pasture raised lamb available in individual cuts! Also a rarity for Reverence Farms, since we primarily focus on offering whole, half and quarters! 👩🏻‍🌾

Our LAMB is limited quantities for this weekend with the following available ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Ground Lamb - $15/lb
Lamb Breast - $20/lb
Lamb Chops - $22/lb
Lamb Kabobs - $24/lb
Leg of Lamb - $18/lb
Lamb Shank - $12/lb
Lamb Shoulder - $15/lb

Come give us a visit THIS SATURDAY 4/6 for our GRAND OPENING of the Farm Store, say hi to the team and take home some delicious lamb & eggs! 🐑🍳

SEE YOU SOON FRIENDS! 👋🏼

Reverence Farms

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