by Marie Hegarty | Jan 28, 2022 | Farm Facts, Recipes & Food
Understanding the entire pasture to plate process is (in my opinion) vital for raising the best beef possible for our customers. Today’s focus: Cuts of beef! Allllll about them – what they are (there are lots of multiple names for many of the cuts…talk...
by Marie Hegarty | Jan 21, 2022 | Farm Facts, Sustainability and Conservation
Raising grass-fed beef isn’t as simple as just throwing cattle on grass where they magically get fat! There’s a lot more energy, time, knowledge, and thought process behind it. Every time we move the cows to fresh pasture, we mow down what they...
by Marie Hegarty | Jan 15, 2022 | Farm Life
Slaughter day is always a hard one. Watching a life end is as emotional as watching one begin, in very similar, but also different ways. Especially when it means saying an earlier than anticipated goodbye to a very special friend. The meat from the two beef we...
by Marie Hegarty | Jan 7, 2022 | Farm Facts
When you’re checking fences, water troughs, refilling “lick” tubs for the cattle is important. As well as admiring pretty pastures with my happy little work buddy, Tux! ❤️ 😊 “Lick” is an essential supplement for our cattle. Ours is salt...
by Marie Hegarty | Jan 5, 2022 | Community, Farm Life
800 first cutting small bales, 250 second cutting small bales, and 20 great big third cutting bales put into our old barn this summer and fall, plus the 122 wrapped haylage bales stored outside, and we are all set on our put up forages for winter ’20-21 feeding....