Buffalo Jerky Dip

4 oz cream cheese
1 tbsp mayo
2 tbsp lemon juice
2oz grated buffalo jerky (a microplane grater with plastic guard works really well for grating jerky)
salt & freshly ground pepper to taste

Great as veggie dip or serve sandwiched between slices of bread and toasted (a la grilled cheese). Or spread on slices of whole wheat bread (toasted or not) and top with thin slices of lemon, cucumber, cornichons or olives.

We're back at the Brooklyn Flea tomorrow with a fresh batch of jerky!

The Buffalo Commons revisited

...found this yesterday on the NY Times Dot Earth blog.

For us, it immediately brought to mind Frank J. Popper's controversial proposal of the Buffalo Commons.

Incidentally, Popper's Buffalo Commons was what first got us thinking (well, first it ticked us off, being cattle ranchers at the time, but after some time it got us thinking) about raising buffalo. And since we traded our cattle for bison, we've never looked back.

Oh, and with respect to some of the comments, which in our opinion are the most interesting part of the NY Times blog entry, fencing in bison is not as complicated an endeavor as it's made out to be. All you really need are young impressionable bison that haven't yet determined where "home" is and a double stranded electric fence...and a couple of teenaged offspring to help tie little orange flags on the electric fence to let the bison know it's there.

Big Day!

Last Saturday was momentous!

We made our debut at the Brooklyn Flea...



...and were part of a Design Week installation at Partners & Spade...



...all in the same day!

Yay, look at us!
(And look at the animal rights debate it spawned.)
Wonder if that means leather Prada bags are cruel too...

History

Photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertilizer. Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.