Non-GMO, Conventional & Organic: What Do They Mean?

You are what you eat. We live by this old adage. We started our farm based on the principles that we have that define what we eat. For beef animals this is an easy choice: they eat grass and only grass. Ruminants and their complex stomach system are designed to be take the complex cellulose

Bacon is Back

Phew, what a week. I’ll dive into the details later, but it has been a busy week. After packing orders on Monday afternoon, we emptied one of our walk-in freezers, then disassembled it, loaded it onto a wagon, brought the pieces down to the barn, build the freezer up again, ran new wiring and got

Chicks Keep Coming | Bacon Soon

Farming and running your own business is like walking a tightrope: you try to balance what you have time to do, and what you know is the best way to do it. Rarely do I walk that line, often falling off into the abyss of perfectionism or into the scramble of the quick and dirty.

March Mistakes

I love spring and I also love reading all the various farm newsletters (including Essex Farm, Echo Farm, Tangleroot Farm, Featherbed Lane Farm and Cairncrest Farm to name a few of my weekly favorites). For many of us March is a time of change, movement and reflection. Especially here in the north east, march sets

Baby Chicks

Day old chicks are often the first animals to arrive on the farm in the spring, and this year the calendar has not even flipped to spring yet. We are pushing the envelope of season extension this year to try to keep our freezer full next winter. So our first batch of chicks arrived this

Frozen Lessons

It started out like any other project: “this will just take a few hours” Our first batch of chicks come in just a few days and so at the beginning of the week I knew I had to get things in order. For the most part this just involves making sure you have everything in

Marching Along

March is an incredible month, we enter the month in what seems like deep winter with night time temperatures below zero, whipping winds and stinging daytime temps in the teens and it seems hard to imagine that by the end of the month we’ll have 500 chicks on the farm, mud on our boots and

Winter Pork & Beef Sale

I’ll get to the bit about our winter sale…but first look at the ice! We’ve had some variable weather, leading to some pretty spectacular sun warmth and thaw during the day but with a cold wind that freezes the water before it hits the ground. This particular spot is dubbed “King Winter’s Palace” by our

More Ways to Save!

Sitting at a computer, building the back-end of your website is not quite as romantic as moving animals on pasture, but it is a job that needs doing, and I figure February is a good month to do so. I’ve begun rolling out a new feature on our website: a drop down menu under a

Survey results are really helpful, keep them coming.

Thank you to everyone who has filled out the survey. It is very helpful for us to hear from you, and I encourage those of you who have not filled out the survey to do so. One question I debated including was a specific question about our chicken stock packaging. I love the new stock