Browse by Tag: pasture-raised

Summer Eating!

While I love Fall & Winter cooking and the coziness it provides, Summer eating is really special. So fresh, so many colors, textures & flavors. Salads that can become whole meals because you keep adding different veggies, fruits and whatever meat you’ve cooked or grilled….good localvore living. Summer Eating gets better around here this week […]

Pasture Improvement…

Sometimes what one thinks is a small(ish) project is really a solid step towards something bigger, which also means it takes many hands, tools, vehicles & …t-i-m-e! Thanks to all our teammates, partners & contractors who helped us close this chapter of pasture improvement in the past 2 weeks, expanding where great forage can grow […]

Walking the Turkeys

Fortunately, we don’t have to walk them to Boston in the Fall, like they did once upon a time from Vermont. We just walk them from one part of the pasture to another. This past weekend, they paraded a bit further than usual to get to some lovely eating and good shade! Enjoy this up […]

Bone Broth Love

We embraced the joy and benefits of good bone broth several years ago.  Through a combination of experiences of our members seeking their own healing through bone broth; Sally Fallon; the bone broth craze hitting urban areas, Brodo and our own hearty volume of bones, we worked with our friend and colleague Chef Lee to […]

Transitions

Fall is arriving and with it some seasonal transitions of crops in from the fields and poultry ready to be processed.  Today we took this year’s batch of 300+ Freedom Ranger chickens to Maple Wind Farm‘s inspected processing facility  and this weekend we will process our turkeys on farm with a great crew of staff, […]

Nov on Farm in Photos

Some photos from our week on the farm   Still rotating our livestock on pasture even in November. Moving shelters, fences and the animals themselves.           The sows respond joyously, enjoying the grass first!                             All enjoy brassicas! This […]

Learning Curve

On Monday afternoon as I finished an easy move of our small gaggle of new pullets, I was struck by how much they had learned in the 10 days they had been on the farm.  It may seem strange to talk about chickens learning, after all many consider them not the brightest bulbs in the […]

WCAX on Pasture-Raised Lard

Had a great time with Judy Simpson & Joe Carroll from WCAX talking about our pasture-raised pigs and the lard they produce.           Check out the video clip to learn more about this healthy fat and how to use it.                   For more […]

New Favorites

This week, we found a new favorite food writer & a new beloved food. Clotilde: Chocolate & Zucchini   Clotilde, a Parisian, has some sass, flexibility and passion in her approach to food and eating seasonally.  She provided us with beautiful inspiration in this mid-winter period when at some moments we pine for summer’s veggies and […]

Occupy the Farm

New Year’s Resolutions motivate many people. Others resist. Studies show such goals are surprisingly effective, 40% or more resulting in significant change. Whether resolutions work for you or not, we are grateful for your resolve to be involved in our farm and support local food production. We welcome the drama of supporting new resolutions people […]