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Here is a listing of the current animals and equipment we have for sale: Cows 75 Gallon vat pasteurizer / cheese vat Sold Portable milk pump and bucket milker … Continue reading
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After six years of gradually building up our small grass-fed milking herd, with the plans and equipment to establish a small creamery for cheesemaking, we are (with some sadness) throwing in the towel. We need to focus on our other … Continue reading
Selling the remainder of our small herd of pasture-fed Jersey cows, having decided (after six years!) to discontinue our farmstead creamery plans. We have 4 cows still available for sale (individually or together) out of 9 originally. $3400 for all … Continue reading
Busy busy at the farm (notice we haven’t blogged in a while?). Wrapped up a first-cutting of hay with the neighbors (1100 square bales for our steers, heifers, and dry cows over the winter), but we’ll still need winter hay … Continue reading
… and mud season is just starting! We can see most of our driveway now! It’s exciting. The seeds really need to be started now. The cows are anxious to get outside. Don’t be fooled. We still have feet of … Continue reading
‘Tis the season – for pork, that is. Still following a tradition of starting piglets in the spring and early summer (raising them through the warm months, and finishing or fattening them on the abundance of fall), many local Adirondack … Continue reading
We sometimes receive wide-eyes or raised eyebrows when we answer the question “how much are your eggs?” Our pasture-raised, free-range, organic-fed hen eggs, we reply, are five dollars per dozen. Since supermarket eggs can sometimes dip below $2 per dozen, … Continue reading
So there is something Good in grazing. Which animals to graze? Cattle, sheep, and goats each have their merits, in terms of feed efficiency (yield of meat and milk in relation to amount of feed consumed), choice of forage (grasses, … Continue reading
Our farming activities and decisions are driven by the questions “What ought we do?” and “How ought we do it?” This is an ethical, moral “ought,” not just an economic “ought,” one which reaches beyond ourselves and our self-interest to … Continue reading
So we were going to farm. So we made plans. Plans about how to shift the dairying, gradually, to more and more a pasture-based operation. Plans to introduce some other farming enterprises, like pastured poultry and a market garden, and … Continue reading