“With good character, good cattle, and good work we will supply Chico with quality beef” Paul Lucas (My great, great, great grandfather)
Welcome to the rants and ramblings of a 6th generation, commercial, cattle rancher who loves to cook. I earned my B.S. degree from CSU Chico in agriculture. I’ve worked in production ag, fulltime, my entire life, until 2009, when I went and then dropped out of law school. I’m now a paralegal in town and work on the ranch during weekends. I wanted to experience “normal life” before I return to the ranch. But I still live on the ranch, actually in a barn.
I’m working on raising pastured poultry and heritage pork in addition to the grass-fed beef the ranch already produces. My goal is to raise enough pastured meat to halfway retired from my office job. I’ll be sharing my adventures in pastured meat, so stayed tuned.
I am very passionate about agriculture and want to share my life and experiences with those who are curious about agriculture. Feel free to ask me anything about ag and I will do my best to answer honestly, without scaring the crap out of you or bashing farmers and ranchers that produce differently from myself. This blog is about my very unique life. It will mainly focus on the ranch and my recipes but don’t be surprised if some random things pop up. Be warned, I am anything but normal. If there is anything you want to know about my ranch or me, please e-mail me at MegRBrown@gmail.com. Thanks for checking out my blog!
Don’t poke me with a stick, please.
Hello,
I am an Idaho farmwife, Agra-Diva and passionate about “agvocacy”. The reason I’m writing to you is to let you know that I have listed your blog on a newly created site called Farmer Inc, The Real Story. This is an informational site and designed for our non-agriculture friends as a one stop shop to enable them to see and read what real farmers do. As a fellow Ag blogger, I have two requests; 1) please help me promote this newest blog site in any manner you can and 2) I am putting together a “Farm Blog Book” that will feature all of our best blogs. So if you are interested, please send me your best blog in a word format attachment, a jpg picture or two and a synopsis about you & your farm. Please see my farm blog that better explains my newest project at http://www.idahofarmwife.net.
Thank you and I hope to hear back from you soon.
Thanks, Gayle Anderson
All I can say is that I wish people would make the same connection to pigs, cows, turkeys, chickens and all other animals they use for food, as they do their horses, dogs cats…. Animals are not food, man has deemed them food. it breaks my heart you are killing your pigs … I only hope that some day you make the connection to all sentient beings as I have. this is the film that I watched and have since been vegan and an animal rights activists. http://www.earthlings.com Blessings
McKenna
No stick
Good and well appreciated blog-
(Andy Vance is how I found your page.)
Cheers,
Lyn
Thank you, Lyn. I really like to hear that! Andy is so awesome! It was such a honor getting interviewed by him! Please let me know if you have any questions related to the ranch and I’ll post about it! Thanks for checking me out!
Give me some info on the Pony Hill Ranch. Where is it in reference to Greenville, CA? If you have other historical pics of the ranch and people that lived there and would be willing to share them, let me know. Very interesting. Thanks.
Hi Jeff! I have lots of information and pictures about the Pony Hill Ranch. Shoot me an e-mail to megrbrown@gmail.com and let me know what your interest is and I’ll see how I can help you.
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Hi Bombshell on a horse.
Informative and impressive blog lady. I bookmarked it. PS the lemon tree you put in Matt’s office is amazing in both asthetics and aromatherapy.
Love and kisses,
-Jen
Just checked out your blog after noticing that you followed me on twitter. You seem like a very interesting person and have a great way of telling your stories. I will be reading your stuff. Thank you for the follow! billhusa1
Hi Bill! I love your photos, so I hope I don’t disappoint you! Thanks for following me too!
Nice site, and it was nice to meet you at the Butte County Farm Bureau dinner. Keep up the good work! Linda Watkins-Bennett
Action News CBS 12/NBC 24
Hi Linda! It was wonderful finally meeting you! LOL, I feel like I’ve known you for years! Thank you so much for checking out my blog!
Still waiting for you to email me that photo we took together (unless it turned out poorly, then no worries!)
I really love your blog. I am from Northern Iowa and I didn’t grow on a farm per say, but my grandpa farmed and my uncle farms. As of a couple of years ago my dad even started row-crop farming. In college, I work for my uncle doing chores and anything and everything with cattle and love it! That’s why your posts are so interesting. I am a Pre-Vet major as well.
Pre-vet major! Heck yeah! We need more vets! Keep it up!
Thanks for the feedback on my blog, I love it!!!!
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Megan,
Your twitter feed was recommended to me by Twitter so I thought I would look you up! Very impressive and would be happy to follow you! I am a rancher and Extension Livestock Specialist for Texas A&M in South Texas.
Joe
Wow thank you so much! I love getting feedback from industry professionals!!!! I look forward to following you as well!
Meg -
Thanks for your devotion to telling the story of agriculture and beef! Like my colleague Joe Paschal, I also ranch and work in the arena of animal and natural resource management.
Rick
Hi I wanted to know how do you kill the cow? I’ve looked at your pictures but I would like to know how to you make the cow bleed out? thank you
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