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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 gotContinue reading “Bacon is Back”

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.Continue reading “Chicks Keep Coming | Bacon Soon”

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 setsContinue reading “March Mistakes”

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 thisContinue reading “Baby Chicks”

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 inContinue reading “Frozen Lessons”

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 andContinue reading “Marching Along”

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 ourContinue reading “Winter Pork & Beef Sale”

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 aContinue reading “More Ways to Save!”

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 stockContinue reading “Survey results are really helpful, keep them coming.”

It’s that time of year again, the thinking time. I haven’t forgotten about those shy steaks we’re talking about, but I’ve been doing some thinking…. I want to hear more from YOU, our customers. How are we doing? How is the service, does the website work? I try hard to suss out all the placesContinue reading “End of Year Survey!”