A couple weeks I was speaking with someone about our farm and they mentioned that driving around the county they mostly see cattle wandering through large fields (aka continuous grazing), rather than being moved daily or every couple of days to new paddocks (aka rotational grazing). It’s true that continuous grazing is the norm, not …
There is a book on our shelves called Kick The Hay Habit written by rancher, Jim Gerrish. The book’s premise is that ranchers are better off not depending on using hay to feed their cattle through the winter months (when the grass stops growing). Rather, ranchers should create a grazing plan to reserve enough standing …
In our last blog post we talked about how the media tends to treat all discussion of agriculture from within the conventional or industrial agricultural paradigm. Even much organic food is produced with the same basic assumptions of conventional or industrial agriculture, and so very often news articles that want to contrast industrial agriculture with …
With the Dutch farmer protests and the civil unrest in Sri Lank, inspired in part by food shortages, farming has received more media attention recently than it usually does. It has been interesting to see how the agricultural aspects of both situations gets discussed. As I understand things, in the Netherlands the government is requiring …
We would like to sing the praises of the roasted whole chicken. As we all move into our winter cooking routines, we wanted to share about our chicken-broth-soup routine with you. The roasted whole chicken our go-to, cook-one-every-week, fool-proof way to prepare chicken. Whether we just it the whole thing, use it for sandwiches, or …
The phrase “pastured-poultry” implies chickens with constant access to fresh forage. Often times this phrase, and others like it, are used only as marketing gimmicks and are not reflective of the farming practices. Because farming practices are directly connected with the nutritional value of your food, it’s good to know what to look and ask …
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We are very excited to be adding pasture-raised chicken to our farm this year.
Being all sold out of our 2020 beef, we are turning our attention to 2021. Our current slaughter dates for the year are: June 9thJuly 13thSeptember 7thOctober 7thNovember/December TBD We will be opening up reservations beginning in February for returning customers and in March for new customers – we will be sure to announce that …
Hi all – Ellen here. Usually Jonathan writes the blogs, but he is buzzing around getting your August and September orders ready. So, I am coming in for a chatty blog post to share a couple thoughts about preparing beef from a whole, half, or quarter. We usually recommend a quarter for 1-2 people, but …
The Soil Health Academy is a group of farmers from across the US that educates other farmers in regenerative farming practices. I was recently reading a blog post by one of their instructors, Allen Williams, about the role of phytochemicals (carotenoids, flavonoids, ellegic acid and allium compounds). We hear about the importance of vitamins and …
