Thank you for visiting our website!  Our farm got its name from our young nieces and nephews in Florida who were duly impressed upon visiting their Uncle David and Aunt Carolyn Peet in Texas.  We were just beginning the process of developing our Dexter cattle operations, and the drawings that accompanied their thank-you notes following their visit inspired the name and logo.

We chose Dexters because of all of their great qualities – gentle temperament, easy calving, good mothers, and sized to be efficient on a small homestead.  We usually have all three colors – black, dun and red.  We started our herd with the purchase of a young bull, 2 heifers, and 3 cows in 2005.  In 2006 we learned the most important truth about farming: the weather is crucial to your success, and it is out of your control.  2006 saw the worst drought in North Texas in 50 years, and the cost of hay more than doubled.  That’s when we learned the second most important truth about farming – you must always be optimistic about the future.  We fully expect to have adequate rain and reasonably priced hay in 2007 and so we are adding to our herd this spring.

Farming has become our passion and our purpose.  We think it must somehow be in our genetic makeup from our ancestors, because there’s nothing we enjoy more than being on our farm, doing the chores, planning the next day, week, month, years, watching the animals grow and develop and interact, and marveling at the incredible wonder and beauty of God’s creation.  We are totally committed to being completely organic.  We do not use chemicals or other unnatural substances on our animals or our pastures.

Our Dexters share their home with four Tennessee Walking Horse geldings and an assortment of cute and friendly goats.  Our guard donkeys, Chica and her son Chalupa, keep the coyotes away.