Karina Jones is a real-life ranch wife in the Nebraska Sandhills and one of the most highly sought-after speakers in the cattle industry nationwide!
Baking for fun! Baking with family!
February is National Bake for Family Fun Month to help encourage families to spend more time together mixing up something delicious treats. This fact captured my heart because most of you know how much time my girls and I spend in the kitchen baking. I have been thinking a lot about this important life skill lately, as we have applied it to many of our homeschool lessons recently.
My 3rd grader just finished a book called Heather and Highland Pony which was set in the beautiful country of Scotland. We celebrate this beautiful book by making a recipe that was recommended, Scottish Oatcakes which we topped with some of our homemade apricot jam. What a great way for a 3rd grader to use fractions in a practical application and to relate a cultural food to a specific area.
I have an 11th grader who is neck deep in chemistry learning about chemical reactions! Well, the kitchen is literally home, no pun intended, to chemical reactions on the daily. She baked bread to learn that when yeast and sugar combine, carbon dioxide is released making the dough rise. Or how about when heat is applied to sugar, a chemical reaction produces changes in the sugar which was clear when she made peanut brittle!
While having baking fun with the family, children will practice many skills. Older children will polish up their reading abilities and following instructions. Everyone will hone up on their chemistry and mathematics. They will have so much fun, they won’t even realize they were learning!
Spend time with the family baking! If you need some recipes to get started check out the Ranch Raised Recipe book on the Your Ag Network website!
Karina ranches with her husband, Marty, and 4 children near Broken Bow, NE. She grew up in western NE, with roots also in southwest SD. The cattle industry and raising kids is her passion.
Watching the cattle industry go the path that it has gone, she could no longer sit quietly at home checking cows, fixing fence, and doing all the everyday tasks wondering when some else was going to make it all better. As she became more active and outspoken on industry issues, she was asked to join the R-CALF USA staff in September 2020 as the Checkoff Petition Campaign manager. That position transcended into her former role as full time Field Director for R-CALF USA.
Listen to Ranch Raised on a Your Ag Network hometown station or www.youragnetwork.com where she talks about her daily life on the Jones Ranch.
Cattle producers are her people. She will meet you at the county fair, at the sale barn, or anywhere the dusty trail leads.
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