TerraPurezza
An educational institute and working farm committed to building soil health and robust habitats through regenerative agricultural practices.
21/10/2024
The whole family was out today at the Pedernales Farmers Market! Come out and see us for all your pasture-raised chicken, lamb, broth, cheese, and raw milk. 🥛 🐓 🐑 🧀 🍜
18/09/2024
All farming is local. Here in Central, Texas, we have learned we have more success with a fall lambing season.
We are four days in, and we already have three healthy lambs born (one not in the picture, born today).
If you’re interested in a farm tour, we can get you a family photo with the kids (or adults, 😉) holding the baby lambs.
07/09/2024
While touring a potential new 200+ acre lease where we could start cattle, Elaran meets cows for the first time.
This is one of the old Reimers properties, and has this 1906 dilapidated house on it.
We have now expanded on to three campuses here in Spicewood; our original homestead, Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch, and now Double Creek Farm near Krause Springs. Having more land allows us to rotate the livestock to where the forage is best, and allow longer rest periods for native grassland recovery.
I am now officially a scruffy-looking goat herder. 🐐🙃
This is part of our petting zoo heard of hens, turkey, goats, and even a peacock at our agricultural-tourism AirBnB.
Link in the comments.
26/07/2024
A roadside snapshot from our weekly raw milk pick up.
Why do we choose Kettler as our partner dairy? Because not all raw milk is created equal. These beautiful pastures are lush with grass that the cows eat year round. Kettler is truly pasture-based, a claim not easy to uphold in Texas: they supplement exclusively with local non-gmo sorghum only when necessary during exceptionally dry summer months. This produces raw milk full of deep nutrition. High omega-3 content and natural vitamin D3 with all enzymes, proteins, cofactors and fatty acids intact. Your body will taste the difference. Kettler raw milk has no corn, no soy, and no glyphosate.
Pre-order on our website for local market delivery!
Overgrazing can happen to ranches large and small. There are many in central Texas in similar conditions. When we are invited by landowners to come use their land for regenerative agriculture in the hopes of improving their soil and habitat, it is usually a long discussion and a long journey. Here, I am sending an update to the landowners of our agricultural-tourism Airbnb here in Spicewood. If you’d like to come stay, we can also give you a personalized tour of the incredible wildlife and our efforts to improve the soil.
It was an adventurous day yesterday picking up our first herd of Boer goats next to the Llano River here in Texas!
Many areas of the Hill Country are in state of degraded stasis. There may be grass, and it may be native, but they are usually small and early successional specialists. We find that what perennial bunch grasses occur, are usually remnants suffering from ‘pedestaling’, where the roots of the grass are the last thing holding the soil in place, while the rest of the earth around it is eroding. This causes the grass to look like it is perched on top of an earth pedestal. It also shows you what the level of ground used to be like decades ago.
When conducting a ‘pasture reset’ we know we are sacrificing some of these small perennial bunch grasses in order to break up the surface-sealing, and return nutrients to the soil. This initiates a long process of recovery to restore more diversity and apex grasses. The goal being to accelerate recovery into mature mixed-grass prairie.
Please excuse the random tangent about Cattle Egrets, but just wanted to highlight the importance of supporting agriculture when it is done right.
Central Texas is exploding in population, and keeping family farms working on the land is essential. No farms, no food.
I have to stop and watch, at least for a few seconds, every dung beetle I see. While here are 58 species of dung beetle in Texas, this one, the ‘Vigilant Tumblebug’ (Canthon vigilans), is my favorite.
Others are bigger or more colorful, but this one is everywhere and makes the most perfect spherical balls.
10/05/2024
We are grateful yesterday’s tornado and hail missed us, as well as for the incredible lighting at sunset after the storm.
10/05/2024
We are proud and honored to be part of the recent episode of the Farm Aid podcast “Against the Grain”.
Please have a listen as we dive into regenerative agriculture, and how we repair soils and this planet.
Against the Grain EP 4: It's Not the Cow, It's the How – Farm Aid As Farm Aid artist Micah Nelson says, "the soil is the most fundamental source of life." In this episode of Against the Grain, we hear about regenerative agriculture and how it can bring back grassland species, which are the foundation of a healthy, vibrant food economy. This form of farming is a vi...
02/03/2024
TerraPurezza is a family farm.
After the family fell into challenging circumstances eight years ago, Tina and Orion Weldon were asked to come to Spicewood to help right the ship.
This gave them an opportunity to test techniques and methods they had only read about. Frank Weldon said, “Why don’t you use this place as your laboratory?”
It was a pure moment of a family working together towards a common cause.
After eight years, we are proud of what TerraPurezza has accomplished and become.
Below is a picture of our matriarch, Kathy Weldon, and the next generation, working in the garden together.
02/03/2024
Every Friday we drive all the way to Brenham and back, to pick up raw grass-fed A2 milk from our friends and partner business at Kettler Family Dairy.
Currently led by Matthew Kettler, this fourth generation dairy has a mixed herd of Holstein and Jersey cows. They never supplement with corn or soy, and concentrate on a high % milk solids (> 5%).
One can immediately taste the difference between grass-fed milk, and milk produced from corn silage.
Come taste the real thing at the Pedernales Farmers Market on Sundays(10am - 2pm), and the Dripping Springs Farmers Market - Official on Wednesdays (3pm - 6pm).
Is this what farm-raised means? 🤠
Elaran started helping on his own. 🥹
23/10/2023
Some of three month old Black-Headed Dorper lambs made an appearance at our son Leonis’s Montessori school last weekend for their fall festival. Here they are hanging out with Orion and our amazing teacher Ms Angelica while children came up to give them pets. It was great to expose the kids to real livestock and talk about our ranch— everyone had a blast! The parents especially loved that these were real animals from a working farm, not a commercial petting zoo. We also brought a few broiler chicks that were just under a week old. It was inspiring to watch the children learn how to gently yet firmly handle them.
12/10/2023
📣INTRODUCING: Chicken Butcher Bags! 🍗🐓
Grab-n-Go bag filled with 10-20lbs of our organic pasture-raised chicken, plus everything you need to make stock for the week. We like to make our food as accessible as possible to everyone which is why we created this program.
💵Save time and money with this easy option, economically priced at $8/lb (20%+ savings on retail prices).
What you'll get, guaranteed:
1x whole chicken
2x packages breast
+an assortment of cuts
+organ meats, bones & feet (grande bag only)
Weekly and biweekly subscription available for additional discount!
Available for purchase online for market pick up or directly at our booth. Follow link in profile to our website shop!
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