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500 Blog Posts
As I was setting out to write this week’s article I noticed the counter in the upper part of the page showing that I’ve written five hundred blog posts for the farm since 2014. I’ve been cranking out an average …
Listening to Plants Talking
Roald Dahl’s books and stories have been a persistent influence in our family’s fiction. I’m pretty sure that my kids read all of his children’s novels, exhausting our local library’s collection and then pulling in the rest of the books …
Back to the Brooder
This week we began the spring cycle of chickens, with the first batch of newly hatched chicks going into our brooder. We normally time our hatch dates to start earlier in the month, but this year it made more sense …
How the Other Half Farms
I was in Arizona for a few days this week, and I’m sure it surprises no one that my sightseeing was more focused on agriculture than on landscapes. Wherever I travel, my head is always on a swivel, looking to …
New Chicken Product Poll
We are developing some new chicken products to offer this summer once the pasture season gets underway. We need feedback from our customers to know how to prioritize our work on the sorts of items people would like. We’d really …
Recipe: Grass Fed Beef Stew with Fried Parsnip Chips and Gremolata
There’s often an expectation that beef stew is a cold-weather meal, but I’ve noticed that our customers tend to order stew cubes consistently year-round. And that seems right to me. I think there are times when our bodies just know …
Is the Farm Grass Fed Certified?
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 …
When the Snow Gets Deep
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 …
Good News for Butter
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 Farming: There’s Got to Be More to It
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. …