As my son Carson and I walked among the herd the other day during morning chores, I was reminded once again how perfectly planned cattle and grass are for each other.  You see, they were eating different types of plants than they had eaten earlier in the year. Plants they had passed by two months ago, they now found delicious.  They were eating plants that were designed to give protein and energy this late in the season to help them through the winter.

In fact, they were harvesting their own food, storing it in the form of fat, and fertilizing the pasture all at the same time.

A perfect cycle, really; no noisy tractors, no smelly barns – just the cattle, the sun, the grass, the breeze… and there we were, blessed to be in the middle of it all!