Dave Perozzi

The chicken season officially began today with the arrival of 350 chicks from the good folks at NEPPA Hatchery.  Most farms need to have chicks shipped to them, but we are fortunate to live one town away from a hatchery.  Not only does this save us shipping costs, it also saves the chicks from the […]

A few weeks ago I mentioned that we were not going to be farrowing piglets on our farm this year; instead we’ll be working with a few other farms to purchase their weaned piglets.  That is still the plan, but since we have a coed dormitory for the pigs, one of the gilts decided to

(Only instead of big oil, our milkshake is being drained by big solar.) “Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? Watch it. Now, my straw reaches acroooooooss the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I… drink… your…

… because the first spring calf arrived this afternoon.  I thought we only had one cow bred early, but this cute little heifer came from another cow I wasn’t expecting to calve for another month.  Guess I wasn’t paying careful enough attention to the hanky panky in the pasture last summer. The weather is a

It feels like it has taken ages to get to this point, but we’re now ready to announce the beginning of our Doorstep Delivery service. We’ll be doing weekly shipments of our meat via next day delivery to customers within our UPS/FedEx delivery zone. Orders should arrive on Wednesdays. We’ve done a lot of work

It seems like I’m never ready for the way stupid stuff trips me up.  I wanted to upgrade the presentation of our egg cartons, so I ordered a batch of stickers to cover the entire top of the egg cartons.  I thought it would be easy to use a date stamp to imprint the “Best

One of the things I enjoy about cows is how they take everything as it comes.  Two or three feet of snow?  No problem.  Just give them hay, water, and some trees to block the wind while they are napping, and they are fine. The picture above was taken few hours into Tuesday’s snow.  By

One of the cats discovered that the chicken nest boxes are actually pretty cozy places to nap.  The cat figured out how to avoid the electric perimeter fence by scaling a wood wall about ten feet high and dropping down into the chicken’s shelter.  The chickens are none too pleased to be sharing their space.

With last week’s balmy un-February-like weather, I was watching the grass carefully.  Despite the warm air, ground temperatures remained cold and most of the pastures remained dormant.  But not uniformly dormant. Note the contrast in the left and right side of the image.  The left is where the cattle ate a hay bale last March.