A SNAP Decision
February 2024 vol. 1
Why We Do What We Do (Part 2)
March 2023 vol. 3 Last week I examined what got us into raising livestock (read it here). In essence it was a desire to build a better life for my family which lead to the discovery of the immensely superior quality and flavor of pasture raised meats. I’ve gained a lot of wisdom over the
Why We Do What We Do (Part 1)
March 2023 vol. 2 I was listening to a podcast this past week and the guest made the following statement: “sell what you fix”. His message was that he sells wellness, not vitamins. This got me to thinking. What do we fix? I’d like to ask that question of you, dear reader. I’d like to
Reaching Our Goal
John Pantalone September 18, 2019 I see it’s been a year since I’ve blogged so I thought I’d start by celebrating. Yesterday we reached one of our sales goals – $1,000 at a market. This is huge and we couldn’t have done it without our loyal customers. Over half of that came from pre-orders from
Chicken Business
Last week we started a batch of 100 Cornish Cross broiler (meat) chickens with the intent to raise on pasture and sell at the farmer’s market. We are prototyping the system with 100 birds, but hope to get up to batches of 300, as chicken is a high volume – low margin game. A chicken
Second Chance on Cutting Hay
My previous post was about a disappointing hay harvest. Well, the second cutting exceeded my expectations. I got 39 bales of hay off of ~15 acres. This same area only produced 13 bales the first cutting. What made the difference? Well, I think the fertilizer had finally kicked in. We had a good 2″ of
Disappointing Hay Harvest
I had a few acres cut for hay this year as the cows weren’t keeping up and it was going to seed. On 25 acres I only got 15 bales. I knew one 10 acre patch would be sparse, but I was expecting 2 bales per acre on the remaining 15 yet I got less