Welcome to the third of four posts in a series about tallow. Tallow has a long history of use in soap making, dating back to ancient civilizations such as the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Romans. These cultures used a mixture of animal fats (including tallow, which is the fat from sheep and cattle) and plant ashes to create basic soap-like substances for cleaning purposes. It was in medieval Europe that soap making became more refined. Tallow was a common ingredient due to its

This is our second post in our tallow series. One of our goals here at Borderlands Farm is to try to use as much of the animal as possible. To me, this is a long-term goal that is going to require a series of time-intensive projects along the way, as I have already learned that things like lamb skin and sheep skin are complicated (and expensive!) to do on a small scale. We started with the sheep fat because it was the second opportunity that was brought to our attention that

Welcome to the first of four posts in a series about tallow. Tallow is basically rendered animal fat, either from cattle or sheep. For beef tallow, the primary sources of fat include the suet, which is the dense fat located around the kidneys and loins of the animal. In the case of lamb tallow, the term is broader and can mean the fat is from a few different locations, including the internal organs and areas where fat accumulates under the skin. Tallow has been used for vario