Sometimes you come across a person who asks why we do this?  I guess it is a straight forward question the person is asking hoping to hear a passionate answer of how we love the land and we want to get away from factory farming and give back to society instead of taking away from it.  Sometimes I wonder if the person has done their research and knows that a lot of people are now doing the same thing hoping to cash in on the market trend of locally grown and wants to hear it is just for the money like a lot of other folks.  Let's be honest, everyone needs to make a living or no one would be doing this.  We have bills too, but our focus really does run deeper and a little more personal.  A few years ago, I was working what seemed like days and nights with the cattle making sure they had everything they needed and their health was in tip-top shape and it occurred to me that I didn't really look after my own health as well as these guys.  So I scheduled a physical with my doctor and everything was going fine until he called me back a week or two later with the results of my blood work and told me my triglycerides were really high.  Being at the ripe old age of 30, I asked what is a triglyceride?  My doctor then preceeded to tell me that it was likely caused by eating to many fatty foods and that I looked in great health but this could cause a major problem when I got into my 40's.  I thought to myself of how I always have tried to eat healthy but I had let my diet slip in the past year or two with slipping into the comfortable zone of just going and grabbing a chili dog or two and going back to work and that this wasn't that big of deal.  No problem easy fix.  I then asked doc the million dollar question of where my levels should be.  "At your age you should be at 120" he said.  "Well, where am I on the chart" I countered wondering why there was a pause in his statement.  "Well, you are at 600".  Hold the horses those chili dogs did a whooper!!!  I don't know a lot about this but already I realize that 600 isn't close to 120.  Doc then starts into how he can prescribe some meds and bring it down and so on and so on.  "Whoa, let's first try a few things like most importantly changing my diet and adding some more exercise and let's retest in a few months to see if anything has changed then I will do the meds if it hasn't" I begged.  "Plus I'm pretty sure I had a chili dog right before I came in to take the blood work so that might have spiked the results." I don't know about you but I really don't like medicine especially the ones that looks like you will be on forever so I will do just about anything to get away from that.  Anyway, after some diet changes and a little exercise my levels were back to normal but it got me thinking.  Here I am trying to stay healthy and this happened to me, imagine what all the other people that eat out everyday are going through.  This grass-fed beef didn't just start as a way to make money but it came about as a mission to help people.  That's what we want to do, provide a great product that helps you at your basic self.  If God came down tomorrow and took away everything in your life, you would first be looking for food and water.  As a people we can do without a lot of things but we can't get away from the basics of life.  We can't help you with the water or the shelter but we are trying to help you with your food.  

by Lanis Adams

So we've added to our brood!  Meet Ella (on the right), our new Great Pyrenees PUPPY.  She may look full grown but she's got a ways to go.  She's 50 lbs now at 5 or 6 months old and is expected to hit the 100 lb mark when she's done.  We adopted her from a rescue group out of Atlanta that specifically deals with Great Pyrs.  Here's their site, http://greatpyratlanta.com/.  There are so many fabulous dogs that need forever homes.  PLEASE do not buy a dog! If there's a demand, that just gives people an excuse to supply...  

And the reason we got Ella is because of these guys...

These are our Nigerian dwarf goats!  Meet Princess Buttercup and Sweet Pea.  In a few months, these girls will be taking us one step closer to total sustainability.  We're going to be utilizing their incredible milk (and eventually goat cheese, yogurt, and butter among other things).  Ella's job and instinct is to bond with the girls and fiercely protect them (and us).  

Stay tuned for our future adventures milking the lovely ladies :)  

Ok folks, we are smack dab in the middle of the process of picking and choosing which and how many cattle we will have for sale this Spring to our grass-fed beef customers.  This is a long process for us but what you will find from dealing with us is that we just don't pick anything out of our herd of 120 to sale to you.  We only pick out 10-15 of what we consider our very best because that is what you deserve.  If you are interested in purchasing our grass-fed product, please don't hesitate to email or call us with any questions you have.  We would hate for you to have to wait until the next Spring to taste our delicious product.       

by Lanis Adams

Saying it is dry really doesn't cover it.  Every blade of grass is a nice scorched shade of brown out in the pastures.  While managing cattle really isn't the easiest thing to do, when you have to worry about your truck catching the grass on fire when you drive it out to check on things brings everything to a new level.  I do believe this is the driest spell while being the earliest (it really hasn't been uncommon the past couple of years to be dry in late July and early August) but to be this dry in early June causes a person to go into a panic mode and pray more often than before.  Really our only hope, so the all-knowing weather forecasters say, is for a hurricane to push this high pressure out and they are not predicting that to happen until August.  Uggg....looks like this summer is going to be a rough one.     

by Lanis Adams

For the past two weeks there has been the sound of a very large spaceship hovering at the farm and at my house during the day.  Wait...don't go running for your lives just yet.  For those of you who do not know what a cicada is, it is a fairly large bug with somewhat clear wings and red protuding eyes and yes they are mating.  That is what the spaceship noise is, bug love, and lots of it.  The cool or weird thing about these bugs is they only come around every 13 to 17 years (depending on who you talk to) so it's easy to forget what that noise is.  The other cool thing is they leave a shell of themselves stuck on trees.  So since a couple have decided that I am a nice looking tree, please tell me if there is a shell on my back when you see me.   

by Lanis Adams

First, we would like to say thanks to all of you who got meat from our farm.  It has been a long day (320 miles round trip from our house and back), but we can not say enough how much we appreciate all of you.  We hope you enjoy it with your families and don't hesitate to call if you have any questions or just to chit-chat.    

Make sure to check back in with us for updates.  We are in the process of developing the site and will be adding vegetable availability, recipes, pictures, and more.  

Lanis Adams

Our meat is 100% hormone free.  It's also grass fed versus feed or corn fed so each cow lives its life eating just the way God intended.  It reaches your table almost directly from our pastures versus you super market meats and their multiple middle man stops, including unsavory feedlots.

Between improving our genetics, grass management, and productivity, we are proud of the product we've developed and are happy to share it with you.

Lickskillet Farm has been in our family over 200 years.  As a part of the original landlots in 1800, it has been passed down from generation to generation.  We hope to continue that legacy in a new era when more often than not, small family farms are becoming obsolete thanks to the big business of factory farming and cheap food.

Our goals are simple, to produce good food and most of all, to get back to a pure form of agriculture where people have a relationship with the farmers that produce their food.

Thank you for supporting our farm and our family.  We hope that we can serve your family again in the future.

Lanis Adams

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