When you lay an ostrich egg next to chicken, goose, and duck eggs, it's a bit like looking at a set of Russian matryoshka dolls, those cute little wooden moppets that nest snuggly inside of each other ...

A few months ago, I found myself in an unexpected conversation with a woman whose husband raises cattle in Missouri. She, however, had recently raised and butchered an ostrich for meat. It’s more ...

This is an installment in a multi-part series.  When most people think of farm animals, they imagine pigs or cows. They do ...