Who is Four Pillars Farm and whaaaat is tallow?
Welcome to Four Pillars Farm by Adventure Freely, LLC! After much pondering and praying and testing and creating I am so thrilled to get to present to you this website where I will be sharing life, laughs, cries, recipes, non-toxic alternatives, holistic health tips, and so much more. God is our number one around here and our passion is to be a light for Him and share His love in the best ways we can while we aim to listen to the Holy Spirit’s guidance and apprentice Jesus Christ. Everyone hears His instructions differently and everyone has a different walk with Him, and that’s a beautiful part of being a human on this gorgeous planet! Thank you so much for joining us and following along as our lives are used for His glory 🙂
To begin, Sam and I were friends back in high school and reconnected in 2020 riiiight before the C-vid craziness. We now have two beautiful boys who are raised in quite a feral sort of way.. but with a good dose of southern hospitality and manners mixed in 😉
We currently reside on a little urban homestead in small town Texas which has been suuch a blessing for us to be allowed to steward since our eldest was born! We built our small 2bed/2bath house in 2021 and have planted a garden, a flower garden, and an orchard since moving in. The ducks and chickens are part of the crew and the farm would not be the same without them 🙂 Although, I had NO idea how destructive chickens can be when it comes to foraging! The whole process has definitely come with some learning curves.
I shared on “Our story.” About how we got into the tallow balm business, but in case you missed it, I have a huge passion for herbs and food as our God-given preventative and occasionally emergency medicine. I am absolutely grateful for hospitals and medical doctors and do believe they have a very important place in this world. However, our goal is to stay away from them right? To take care of our bodies and treat them with respect so that they may last us until time to go to Home. Not only last us, but to still be able to give us the quality of life we enjoyed as young spring chickens. So that we may enjoy our years where and with whom we would like to be and not sitting at the doctor’s office. Agreed?
Now we come to TALLOW. I start with tallow because it is a basic household remedy that contains a most glorious amount of medicinal properties. On. Its. OWN.
Tallow is the purified form of beef fat rendered (melted) down from what is called beef suet. Suet is the fancy word for the leaf fat on the kidneys of the cow. It is the most nutrient dense! Add in a couple of herbal infusions and you’ve packed in a healing punch to an already incredibly potent moisturizer. Everyone’s skin sings “HALLELUJAH!” 😂 Below are some benefits of using 100% grass-fed tallow balm on your skin:
- Is deeply nourishing and moisturizing
- Contains Vitamins A, D, K, & E, B6 & B12, all of which are extremely beneficial for skin
- Helps to prevent skin’s loss of moisture
- Contains conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) with natural anti-inflammatory properties
- Has all of these nutrients that are found together only in animal products
- Contains oleic acid (omega 9) aids other components in penetrating deeply into skin
- Is antibacterial & antimicrobial
- Contains palmitic acid which helps improve the protective barrier function of skin
- Is rich in minerals
- Contains stearic acid which helps to repair damaged skin, and improves skin’s flexibility and suppleness
- Aids in skin regeneration for skin that appears healthier and more youthful
- Contains palmitoleic acid (omega 7) which is one of our skin’s basic building blocks
- Is an excellent source of iron, riboflavin, and potassium
Most of his list comes straight from Bumblebee Apothecary’s blog. She is awesome and makes incredible products.
Tallow is very similar to sebum, which is the oil our own skin produces, therefore it is more readily absorbed into the skin versus your other creams and moisturizers. A little bit goes a loooong way 🙂 try it and see!
-Adventure freely✌🏻