How We Raise Your Food – Beef

Farming, Grass Fed Beef, Health, Sustainable Farming

When I began my journey into the world of regenerative farming practices back in the 1990s, my only meat and dairy customers were people who were sick, really sick. Most of my customers suffered from Crohn’s, lupus, cancers, and Lyme disease. Not many people had run...

How We Raise Your Food – Pork!

Animals, Farming, Pigs

You are part of a cycle you can be proud of.   I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good...

Beauty Interrupted

Animals, Musings, Sheep

Beauty, in all its manifestations,  has always been important to me but the older I get the more it has become a faith, a yearning, and a guiding principle for my life. My great fortune is that the farm puts all this in crystal clear perspective, day after day. This...

The Making of a Great Cow

Animals, Farm News

It never, ever fails! Whenever there’s historical storm a baby will be born on River Cottage Farm and with a full moon to boot this baby had no choice but to be born in the snow. So, after a week overdue according to our records, baby Michi Storm was born last...

Winter 2016 in Pictures

Animals, Farm News

 

Trying to Beat the Heat

Animals, Farm News, Free Range Chicken

With temperatures still hovering just below 100 today we are on full alert against heat stroke for man and beast. Part B of my fun chick hatching experiment is in full swing; now that I successfully hatched 22 cute little baby chicks in my new handy dandy incubator. ...