Bringing Home Bessie

Both my husband and I are in agreement that there is more to healthy eating than just eating healthy fats and vegetables and omitting grains and sugar; eating local food is also part of the equation as well. In general we do a pretty good job of this on our own. We have our own garden during the summer months and regularly have a freezer full of freshly caught steelhead, bass and trout. We also hunt deer and elk, but after a disappointing and unsuccessful season we were interested in purchasing half a cow (who we've since named Bessie). On one of his recent hunting trips to eastern Oregon, my husband was listening to a radio station when an...