Someone recently asked me if our beef was certified as grass fed by the American Grassfed Association. The question itself was straightforward but it caused me to do some thinking about certifications, trying to understand what kind of value they represent for us as farmers and for all of our customers. Food products are a …
We’re certainly no strangers to snowstorms in March, so this week’s big snow wasn’t entirely out of place. We have a system in place on the farm that can handle the usual range of storms we get, although I’m sure there are upper limits to what we could deal with. With snowstorms that drop two …
We wanted to let everyone know that we’ve been making some changes for the better with our butter. We’re still having the butter churned by the ever-capable folks at Kriemhild Dairy, but we’re sourcing the cream from Tom McGrath at Family Farmstead Dairy just south of us in Worcester. Tom’s cream checks off several boxes: …
During the recent Superbowl, in some midwestern regions agricultural interest groups aired commercials with titles like “We are the 96%.” The goal was to promote more understanding among the public that the majority of farms in America are family farms. Polls indicate that most people believe that most farms are corporate-owned, and the perception of …
We’re at it again with another shipping container project for the farm. A truck delivered two containers this week. One of them is pretty old and banged up, so that is destined to be used for more prosaic storage needs. But the nicer container is being reworked as a meat sorting room. In this situation, …
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A couple of headlines about fires at livestock facilities have caught my attention recently. It occurs to me that farming out on pasture adds yet another level of security to our food supply. Unlike the prevailing wisdom of the industry, where biosecurity is all about confining the animals and controlling the environment to a greater …
Want to get under my skin? Call me a protein farmer. Wrong Direction Farm is not a protein farm. Classifying Wrong Direction Farm as a protein farm involves some understandable oversimplifications. In a broad sense, we can agree that this farm’s commercial sales are built around selling cuts of meat from cattle, chickens, turkeys, pigs, …
We’re always appreciative when our friend Chef Katy develops another recipe using our products. This time she set herself the task of creating up a restaurant-worthy treatment for our beef tenderloin filets. The quality of these tender filet mignon cuts does most of the heavy lifting in this recipe. The accompanying richly flavorful mushroom cream …
This fall I spent some time in the garage cutting and welding an attachment for our tractor so it could plow snow around the farm. Years ago I bought a pickup truck at a municipal auction, and it came with a snow plow. The truck rusted itself into ruin and is no longer with us, …
I know that you don’t read a farm blog for personal medical advice, so rest assured that I’m not here to poke a finger in your face and to tell you what to think about vaccines. This past week I’ve received a flood of emails and a few phone calls from customers concerned about mRNA …
